Computer locking up after several days' uptime

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/9/28 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> Is it actually hung or just very unresponsive?
>

So far as I understand it requires a hard reset. How can one determine
"very unresponsive"?

> I have found that a memory leak in Adobe Reader (acroread) when run
> from Firefox effectively hangs my machine if left to run, the swapping
> makes it impossible to do anything.  Even a console login as root
> fails because it times out between entering the user name and the
> password.  The only way out is a hard reset.
>

I know that he does not use Adobe Reader, but he does use Firefox
(with no extensions). I believe that he is on Firefox 3 as the system
is mostly a stock install with updates.

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Dotan Cohen

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