Apps :: Virus or memory problem?

Have you initiated DMA support for your disk drives?

Try:

dsl dma

at the boot prompt and see if the 100% CPU goes away. Disk operations without DMA can produce temporary large surges in CPU usage even on faster computers.

Good Luck.

I have experienced the closing of Firefox on machines with small ram size.
I solved the problem by tuning Firefox cache size. I cut it way down.

From within Firefox Tools->Options->Cache

Your tuning options will be saved in the .phoenix directory. From liveCD be sure to add .phoenix directory to your filetool.lst for backup.

Ahhh, thanks. Everything's running smoothly now. Thanks again!

Unfortunately I'm having the same problem. DSL would be fine if I wasnt doing anything, but if I start to work with DSL it would jump to 100% CPU and things start closing. There doesnt seem to be anything consistant I would do to cause it. Somtimes it happens early, and sometimes it would take a while to crash. I tried running DSL dma, but, I think, since I am using the CD to run off it would not work (plenty of errors and no boot up). I have been using only one .dsl package (rox.dsl). I'm going to try just a plain boot and see if I can crash it.

The computer is an old hand-me-down and I'm not sure what is in it or what is bad in it. I'll let you know if not using the Rox.dsl will fix it.

Matt

How much memory? That is probably the issue with the older computers.

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