Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Andre Rikkert de Koe <arikkert@surf.IAE.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990519134415.26546M-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990519174343.9943D-100000@surf.IAE.nl>
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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 may want to look at "idled" it's in the port collection: /usr/ports/sysutils/idled > > ------------ > > Hello FreeBSD users, > > 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 such interactive programs. We are sure that they > were started to run in foreground. However in the top-example "brouwert" > was not logged in at that moment. Only thing we can do is to kill the > proces. > > Does anyone has a clue what's the cause of this ? > > > last pid: 67601; load averages: 1.37, 1.44, 1.38 up > 8+05:09:52 14:31:33 > 261 processes: 5 running, 254 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie > > Mem: 160M Active, 36M Inact, 35M Wired, 12M Cache, 8344K Buf, 5572K Free > Swap: 570M Total, 55M Used, 516M Free, 10% Inuse > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 39448 brouwert 84 0 2240K 1668K RUN 74:51 79.59% 79.59% lynx > 67582 arikkert 47 0 2004K 1052K RUN 0:01 37.00% 1.81% top > 60019 root 2 0 10520K 10224K RUN 0:32 0.98% 0.98% named why are you running named on a shell box? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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