Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-06-16 Thread Studded
On Thu, 20 May 1999, The Tech-Admin Dude wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine.. > so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :). Blast from the past, but since no one gave you an

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread Steven Young
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: > We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main > logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes > running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are I believe the easiest solutio

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread The Tech-Admin Dude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine.. so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :). On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs.

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Gregory Bond
> It's usually due to a bug in the application. When a user exits, the > stdin/stdout filedescriptors on any backgrounded processes go away. > That makes any read() calls return with an error. If the application > doesn't check the return value of its read(), it can go into a tight > loop it'll

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: > I sent this question to newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc but I found > the two answers I got not sufficient. The answers were like "it's inherent > to Unix" and "Just kill those processes". > So now I'm trying the mailing list. As pointed ou

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: > > I sent this question to newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc but I found > the two answers I got not sufficient. The answers were like "it's inherent > to Unix" and "Just kill those processes". > So now I'm trying the mailing list. Sir, you m

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs. ... "ee" and "pico" are two more. ee is particularly annoying since it is one of the "supported" editors... luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 19), Andre Rikkert de Koe said: > We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main > logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming > processes running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). > These programs are mostly tin and lynx and