[MPlayer-users] Total Freeze of Mplayer with one movie

[Martin Collins]

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:09:07 -0700
RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:

> And the point remains, there's nothing a user-level program can ever
> possibly do to freeze up your whole system.

They can make it look like it's frozen though. You still have to
reboot, unless you have another machine to ssh in with. In fact with
2.6.15 I've had swap storms so bad even that doesn't work.

Martin