[Malvern] Memory Reliability

[Richard Forster]

Unless you use that thrice-cursed abomination known as Flash[1]. When it 
goes it hang Firefox. Closing (well, killing) and restarting Firefox 
leads to a nice dialog box telling me that Firefox is already running 
and that I should either close it down or reboot. I can't find a way to 
close the invisible Firefox and end up rebooting.

So, does anyone know how to kill unkillable processes and save me these 
reboots?

To further annoy me, when shutting down the system can't unmount the 
disk cleanly because some process won't take it's filthy paws off the 
hard drive. Thank $KERNELHACKER for journalled filesystems.


[1] Yes, I know you can redefine beta software as 'that which forces 
reboots' and include Flash in the list.


Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:32:35 +0100, ianpascoe at btinternet.com said:
> 
>> I'm more than happy to be corrected!
> 
> Well, if that's the perception then that is the perception. FWIW, I don't
> believe Linux needs rebooting on a regular basis - as others have
> commented, reboots are associated with power outages, hardware upgrades or
> kernel upgrades. There's probably some case somewhere where Linux would
> benefit from a reboot, but I've yet to see it (outside of beta software).