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Sometimes firefox causes such extreme load (on my mobile i7 CPU..what) that the system becomes more and more unresponsive very quickly, mouse cursor starts skipping, to a point where each action, such as keypress to switch to VT to kill firefox, takes like a minute or several minutes. X will be totally useless at that point in terms of reaction, so my last hope is to kill firefox from VT. The problem here is that in the VT I cannot login anymore to issue a kill command, because between the VT registering me entering name and entering password more than a minute will pass so the login prompt actually times out (!)
Now I think there is some **bad** problem there if some random user-app can shut down the whole system like that, is there a way to fix it so that you can ALWAYS enter a VT and kill an app if it causes trouble?
Last edited by mir91 (2016-03-17 07:54:09)
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