[ale] something's eating cycles

[Jim Philips]

You didn't mention which edsktop environment you're using. KDE, for example, 
can sometimes start a rogue kdeinit process and it will consume all 
resources. But Mozilla is the most frequent culprit on my desktop. What 
usually sends it crashing is an ad with Java content that fails to load 
fully. Some people on the mozilla newsgroups have suggested pointing to 
different plugins within the JRE. For example, I have both:

/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so

 and :

/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Some people have suggested that the link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins should be 
to the ns600 version and not the ns610 version. Some people with Mozilla and 
Java may want to try that tweak.


On Monday 01 July 2002 09:35 am, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> This newbie needs a little help.
>
> Something is eating processor cycles and the widget I am using
> isn't helping me. First it tells me that Mozilla is responsible (but
> it isn't) and then it tells me that solitaire is the culprit -- it aint
> either.
> Does there exist a utility that I can let run in the background that will
> keep tabs on running programs and report, when queried, how busy they
> are or how much of the processor they are using, or somehow give me
> the data I need to figure out which program or routine is screwing up?


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