From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 23:54:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00279 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA22337; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 02:54:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 02:54:07 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Doug Lo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! "who" hangs system. In-Reply-To: <3588AC56.45FF6317@ms11.hinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is the system totally hung, or is it just the terminal in which you're running 'who'? If it's just one terminal, who is probably trying to resolve an IP address. With 'w' you can give it the '-n' flag to force it to display IP addresses rather than names... Charles Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Doug Lo wrote: > Hi, > > When I run 'who', I notice the system takes an extremely long time to repond. > After rebooting, the problem did go away for a while. But not for long. > So I made some other changed and rebooted it again. Still, 'who' works OK after > rebooting only for a short period of time. > Would anyone know how to solve this problem? thanks. > > Regards, > Doug. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message