From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 31 00:27:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA24749 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 31 May 1996 00:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marikit.iphil.net (map@marikit.iphil.net [203.176.0.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA24741 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 00:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from map@localhost) by marikit.iphil.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA05508 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 May 1996 15:27:16 +0800 From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" Message-Id: <199605310727.PAA05508@marikit.iphil.net> Subject: detecting and killing CPU hogs To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:27:16 +0800 (GMT+0800) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! Is there a way to do kill programs like this via scripts: > 1989 p0- RN 1688:47.17 lynx > 7488 p0- RN 1477:42.69 lynx > 15296 p0- RN 5359:54.88 lynx > 17227 p0- RN 2380:00.85 lynx > 19982 p1- RN 429:47.18 pine > 21068 p1- RN 419:02.95 pine Apparently, the uptime went so high as to exceed 12 and disable sendmail's mail processing. I think these are caused by people who run these from the shell via a telnet session, which gets disconnected. Am I right? Thanks! -- miguel a.l. paraz iphil communications, makati city, tech problems, to philippines.