[gentoo-user] Google Earth

[Jorge Almeida]

I tried Google Earth, liked it, tried again, and, sure enough, it froze
my computer. By "froze" I mean no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the
X-server, no Ctrl-Alt-F?, no Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. I had to reboot by
pressing the button in the box. (The bottom of the window said
"Streaming 21%", forever.)

Now, I know googleearth-4_beta is, well, beta. I'm not asking for help
with googleearth, since I assume nobody can give it (Google probably
uses Linux, but prefers to cater to Windows). What I find very
un-linux-like is that a faulty program can leave me with no alternative
but rebooting. I wasn't running the thing as root, of course. Can somebody
guess what happened? And is there some way to avoid it happening again,
short of not using googleearth? (Some way to limit the ressources the
program can grab?)

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Jorge Almeida
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