[KLUG Members] Linux Freeze-up

[Tim Gray]

awilliam at whitemice.org wrote:

> I see this once in a while and it isn't that the application is burning 
> all the CPU (actually pretty hard to do under a 2.6.x kerner).  Often the 
> hung application is simply holding the focus (keyboard and mouse events).  
> Thus giving the machine a hung feel, while the other applications are 
> happilly sputtering along.  This is I think actually an X11 bug but I 
> haven't researched it since it happens so rarely (and I've got lots of 
> other things to research).

Ah.  I haven't run into that, and I run a stock slackware kernel (2.4.x)
so when I do have a problem it's usually CPU-hog.

--Tim