Processes using all resources

[Willy Hamra]

2008/9/17 Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>:
> 2008/9/17 Tycho Andersen <tycho at tycho.ws>:
>> I've had X die a few times while playing games on Wine. The simplest
>> solution (at least for me) seems to be to SSH into my box from a roomate's
>> and kill whatever is wreaking havoc.
>>
>> Tycho
>>
>
> That was the first i tried as i thought that X crashed and locked
> keyboard and mouse but in my case the system was so overloaded that i
> never got a ssh login prompt.
>

sometimes amsn does some real weird behaviour when i have offline
messages, and it locks the desktop, i don't know how safe it is do so,
but i use the ctrl-alt-backspace, which restarts the X server, along
with all processes using it.


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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.