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Topic: Virus or memory problem?, Apps closes by them self

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cbagger01

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Posted: June 27 2004,16:54

Have you initiated DMA support for your disk drives?

Try:

dsl dma

at the boot prompt and see if the 100% CPU goes away. Disk operations without DMA can produce temporary large surges in CPU usage even on faster computers.

Good Luck.

roberts

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Posted: June 27 2004,19:23

I have experienced the closing of Firefox on machines with small ram size.
I solved the problem by tuning Firefox cache size. I cut it way down.

From within Firefox Tools->Options->Cache

Your tuning options will be saved in the .phoenix directory. From liveCD be sure to add .phoenix directory to your filetool.lst for backup.

l0st
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Posted: June 28 2004,10:06

Ahhh, thanks. Everything's running smoothly now. Thanks again!

Joat_Mone
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Posted: July 02 2004,03:18

Unfortunately I'm having the same problem. DSL would be fine if I wasnt doing anything, but if I start to work with DSL it would jump to 100% CPU and things start closing. There doesnt seem to be anything consistant I would do to cause it. Somtimes it happens early, and sometimes it would take a while to crash. I tried running DSL dma, but, I think, since I am using the CD to run off it would not work (plenty of errors and no boot up). I have been using only one .dsl package (rox.dsl). I'm going to try just a plain boot and see if I can crash it.

The computer is an old hand-me-down and I'm not sure what is in it or what is bad in it. I'll let you know if not using the Rox.dsl will fix it.

Matt