What to do if frozen ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:38 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 16:40 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am a perl-Tk application (Sterra.pl)  with seems does not want to give
> >> me the hand back because of swapping !
> >
> > If you say absolutely nothing about what your application is for or
> > where it came from, how do you expect people to help you?
> What do you need to know about my application ?

Put it this way: you said "my app is swapping, why is this"? The only
coherent answer is that its virtual memory demand is too high for your
machine (in combination with all the other apps you're running). As to
*why* it's too high, it could be anything from a basic requirement (e.g.
you're inverting huge matrices in the most simplistic way) to a simple
memory leak. That's why it's important to say what the app is doing.
Also, does it show this behaviour all the time, or only after it's been
running for a long time?

> I even had the same behavior with firefox !

I have sluggish behaviour with Firefox (it gets bigger and slower over
time), but it's definitely caused by an add-on. I'm in the process of
discovering which one.

poc