Author: Tim Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Find thrashing my box - is there anything I can do
other than press "reset"?
On Wed July 25 2007 22:08, HantsLUG Mail wrote: > Some hours ago now I stared find in KDE to find a file. Initially, it was
> running, but I could do other things and the HDD light was flickering on
> and off.
>
> Now, some hours later it is consuming virtually all the resources of the
> cpu and the HDD light is on constantly. I have tried all normal methods of
> stopping it, to no avail. I have succeeded in getting a "run" window open,
> with a view to running konsole, finding the pid and killing "find", but I
> couldn't actually launch anything. I am sending this from my
> granddaughter's computer.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to press the reset button - but I am
> loathe to do so while the HDD is actually being read. Equally, it cannot
> be good for teh CPU to be being thrashed in this way. There are no obvious
> signs that anything is heating up, but still.
>
> If there is anyone out there, _please_ express an opinion. Do I 1) press
> reset now 2) let it run overnight and hope that it has finished by the
> morning, and then press reset if it still hasn't stopped 3) do something I
> haven't thought of.
>
> TIA
> Lisi
Ctrl-alt-del to kill the x-server, although that combination does vary between
distros, on mine I get the option to log out of kde
