[SunHELP] netscape daemon is loading 99.4 CPU

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The older version of Netscape's browser you are using is known to do =
that
periodically - it "dies" from the screen, but stays running out of =
control.
Upgrade to a newer version of Netscape, and don't worry about killing =
the
runaway process.

Thanks,
Thomas Cameron, MCSE, MCT, CNE, RHCE
IS Engineering Manager
Dell Financial Services


> -----Original Message-----
> From: LLamas-Higueras, Javier [mailto:jllamas at ssa.siemens.es]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 7:03 AM
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: [SunHELP] netscape daemon is loading 99.4 CPU
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> 	Hi gurus!,
> 	just some help...
> 	I am working on a web server that is running under=20
> Solaris 2.7, I
> have a funny netscape4.04 browser daemon that is ussing since=20
> a few days the
> 99.4 % of the CPU usage continuosly.
> 	.....
> 	# /usr/ucb/ps -aux |head
> 	USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT       S    START =20
> TIME COMMAND
> 	root      2649 99.4  3.123488 3712 ?        R   May 11 3848:08
> /opt/NSCPcom/.nets
> 	root     10141  0.3  1.1 1544 1272 pts/42   O 12:32:49  0:00
> /usr/ucb/ps -aux
> 	#ps -ef:
> 	root  2649  2636 99   May 11 ?       3849:59
> /opt/NSCPcom/.netscape.bin http://192.168.0.5/
> 	....
> 	That is something that happends quite usually always=20
> with the same
> daemon. We are 4 people opening remote Xwindows on our=20
> windowsPCs over this
> machine and working with netscape browser quite often.=20
> Normaly, we kill the
> process to solve the problem but I would like to know what is going =
on
> here... if is possible...
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> 	For that reason I tried to use a truss and debug some=20
> information
> about this daemon:
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> 	truss -rall -wall -vall -xall -tall '-s!all' '-t!lwp_sema_wait'
> '-t!sigprocmask' '-t!lwp_sema_post' '-t!lwp_mutex_lock'
> '-t!lwp_mutex_unlock' '-t!time' '-t!setitimer' -o=20
> /var/tmp/truss_netscape -p
> 2649 &
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> 	but I always get only this two lines thousands of times... and I
> don=B4t know what it means :o(
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> 	poll(0xFFBEB760, 1, 0)                          =3D 1
> 	        fd=3D9  ev=3DPOLLRDNORM rev=3DPOLLRDNORM
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> 	Could somebody enlight me with that? Any advice or something to
> try....
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> 	hand!,
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> > Javier Llamas Higuera=20
> > * E-mail: jllamas at ssa.siemens.es
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