Cats and Keyboards
by frankbell from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6EE8F)
This is not a serious problem--indeed, it is rather frivolous--but I am curious about something that happened today.
I was sitting at my laptop trying to feed my blog when the cat jumped onto the desk and walked across the keyboard from right to left. Then she paused at the left edge, covering some of the keys, as she considered jumping from the desk to the cat tower about a foot away.
As she sat there, suddenly the fans started to roar (figuratively speaking) and the usage scale for CPU0 (of four) in GKrellM spiked. Top told me that I had two instances of something called "Isolated Web Co" running at the top of the top display.
I used the kill command to kill both processes, but the fans continued to roar, although the CPU usage started to drop back down per GKrellM.
I closed all programs, but the fan noise continued. I ended up rebooting the machine, and everything went back to normal. The only programs I had open were Firefox, Thunderbird, KeePassXC, and Konsole.
The computer is a ThinkPenguin Style Note with a standard US English keyboard with 16GB RAM running Debian Sid.
I have three questions:
1. What key combination could my cat have hit to trigger this behavior?
2. Why was killing the "Isolated Web Co" process not sufficient to remedy the situation.
3. Why do cats have to mess with my comput--oh, never mind.
I was sitting at my laptop trying to feed my blog when the cat jumped onto the desk and walked across the keyboard from right to left. Then she paused at the left edge, covering some of the keys, as she considered jumping from the desk to the cat tower about a foot away.
As she sat there, suddenly the fans started to roar (figuratively speaking) and the usage scale for CPU0 (of four) in GKrellM spiked. Top told me that I had two instances of something called "Isolated Web Co" running at the top of the top display.
I used the kill command to kill both processes, but the fans continued to roar, although the CPU usage started to drop back down per GKrellM.
I closed all programs, but the fan noise continued. I ended up rebooting the machine, and everything went back to normal. The only programs I had open were Firefox, Thunderbird, KeePassXC, and Konsole.
The computer is a ThinkPenguin Style Note with a standard US English keyboard with 16GB RAM running Debian Sid.
I have three questions:
1. What key combination could my cat have hit to trigger this behavior?
2. Why was killing the "Isolated Web Co" process not sufficient to remedy the situation.
3. Why do cats have to mess with my comput--oh, never mind.