Re: putty on windows 2000 crashing badly, unkillable

From: Marc Haber (mh+usenet0220@zugschlus.de)
Date: 05/28/02 

From: Marc Haber <mh+usenet0220@zugschlus.de>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:38:46 +0200

Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> wrote:
>Marc Haber <mh+usenet0220@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>> I frequently have five, six, or even more ssh sessions to different
>> sessions open. Occasionally (about once in five hours work time), all
>> putty windows freeze. They are not repainted if something else moves
>> over them. The putty processes stay around, and are shown in Task
>> Manager, and the rest of the system (especially other applications
>> like Office or TeraTerm) remain perfectly useable.
>
>You imply that it's consistently the case that _all_ the PuTTY
>windows freeze up at exactly the same time. Is that correct?

Yes, right. All puttys get unuseable at the same instant (as long as a
human being can verify). Putty doesn't need to be at the foreground at
this time - I have had this happening that I had a bunch of puttys
open, used agent to read news for an hour, to come back to my ssh
sessions and find all puttys frozen.

>If so, I'm baffled, and would tend to suspect some sort of OS-level
>weirdness.

W2K isn't the most exotic platform though.

>Each PuTTY session is an entirely separate process, and
>they shouldn't be able to interfere with each other at all unless
>the OS is doing something highly bizarre.

I suspect this is an OS issue as well, since the processes cannot even
be killed, but putty is the only app that seems to be affected.

Greetings
Marc 

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