4.0.2sp2 eats CPU like crazy (fixed)

[John Bryan]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 02:17 PM, Tim Worman wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 12:20 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:
>
>> I think it might be related to Java or JavaScript. It might even be an 
>> Apple
>> bug. Has this CPU problem happened to anyone running on 10.0.3 or lower?
>
> yes, I can guarantee that I had a total system meltdown trying to view a 
> video on CNN's video page using OmniWeb 4.01 on OS X 10.0.3. General 
> symptoms are paging to disk for ever, and ever, and ever, and... well, 
> you get it. I won't go back 'til I get the "hi" sign.

brother, I'll second that.

I went to their page the other night, clicked on the video
thing which brought up the second window, with the 'select
your player' popup, etc., and I don't know if it started
at that point, or if it started when I went to select my
player, but the popup menu wouldn't come up at all, the whole
shebang froze for all practical purposes, and I mean the WHOLE
shebang.  Disk started getting hit like crazy. Went on for maybe
five minutes or more as I tried to force-quit, bring up process monitor,
as well as telnet in from my linux box.  I only got as far
as 'welcome to darwin', waited around some more and hit the
restart button.

I'm NOT trying THAT again.

John B