Sometimes, a telnet or FTP session to our Debian system does not end correctly. I think this usually happens when someone's network connection dies while they are still connected. When this happens (I don't think it happens every time), their shell or FTP process does not die, but lives on forever until I kill it or the system gets rebooted. A lingering FTP process takes little or no CPU time, but a lingering bash process seems to take up a *lot* of CPU time for some reason. Each one takes up a little bit of memory as well.
Is this a normal thing? Are others experiencing this? If so, how are you dealing with this? Shouldn't these processes be dying automatically when their network connection dies? It is not really a big problem now, but I imagine it could be in the future as we are getting more and more users on our system all the time. Thanks, Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
