camzmac
Group: Members
Posts: 22
Joined: Nov. 2004 |
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Posted: Feb. 08 2005,01:03 |
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DSL is a great system, but I just have one thing that is really bugging me.
Whenever the CPU usage hits 100%, there seems to be a chance that the system will become unresponsive. Especially when Firefox is open and/or an MP3 is playing in Firefox.
The machine I'm on has a 400 mHz Pentium II processor with 128 MB of RAM (plenty in my opinion, rarely gone past 50% used in DSL), and when I was in Wind0ws the system crashed a total of 1 time(s). (on the exact same computer) And most of the time I have no problem listening to MP3s while surfing with Firefox under Wind0ws. When I am under DSL, however, I've never been able to go for longer than an hour doing this without the system crashing. DSL has crashed at least 30 times on me since I first got it in November (and this is my first Linux OS I've ever gotten).
Of course, when I tried it on a 1.67 gHz machine it was almost impossible for it to crash.
But I think it would be an excellent idea to have something in DSL that limits how much of the CPU a process can take up, so that the chances of crashing are much lower.
Thank you for reading this.
EDIT: Oops, didn't see the "DSL Ideas and Suggestions" forum, it should probably be moved over there...
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