does X apps some times go blank and you need to kill the app i find that to be very annoying becuse i do that a lot is there a fix for this here is my top - 15:22:46 up 2:25, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.09, 0.20
Tasks: 72 total, 1 running, 71 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.0% user, 7.9% system, 0.0% nice, 91.1% idle
Mem: 385332k total, 371332k used, 14000k free, 60976k buffers
Swap: 1277088k total, 8k used, 1277080k free, 211276k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9977 root 16 0 93568 11m 2032 S 2.6 3.0 0:11.26 X
10705 xxxxxxx 16 0 936 936 744 R 1.0 0.2 0:00.26 top
10099 xxxxxxx 16 0 15040 14m 11m S 0.3 3.9 0:04.00 suseplugger
10685 xxxxxxx 15 0 15512 15m 13m S 0.3 4.0 0:01.06 kdeinit
1 root 15 0 256 256 220 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.80 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.30 kswapd
5 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.84 kupdated
7 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kinoded
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mdrecoveryd
11 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 kreiserfsd

what do i need runing in the back round i run a x86 p3-866

no its not common. what apps are you running that crash like that? it could be a few things, a mis configured system, poorley written software... etc etc.

many apps like gaim and knoqueror
gnome 2.2 and kde 3.1 and all so my k3b crom app sayes there is not any cdro driver and looked for it and it is there i use suse 9.0

check your log files, /var/log/messages ,
/var/log/localmessages. also log files of the programs that are crashing. run a program that crashes from an xterm, and print here any message displayed in the xterm window.