From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 17 21:20:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA26727 for current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA26719 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16617; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:20:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707180420.WAA16617@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Kyle Mestery cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xterm question In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:46:54 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:20:20 -0600 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > I am running current from a few days ago (7-16-97), and I am seeing > something weird with my xterms. Actually, it might not be the xterms, it > might be finger and w. I notice that after X has been running, suddenly > doing a w or a finger shows that all users have been idle for the same > amount of time, usually the amount of time for the least idle window I > have open. I only use X, so I havent tested this without X. Does anyone > else see these problems? > > System is a dual P133, 64MB RAM, 2GB EIDE disk. > FreeBSD hope.winternet.com 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jul 17 > 07:35:45 CDT 1997 root@hope.winternet.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOPE > i386 > > Kyle Mestery > StorageTek's Network Systems Group > 7600 Boone Ave. N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 > mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com > Are you running the SMP kernel? If so that *might* be the problem, proper handling of the timer code is still lacking in many areas. Or SMP might have nothing to do with it... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD