Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 22:24:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Huuuge discrepancy between "last" and "who" Message-ID: <199504180224.WAA26508@haven.ios.com>
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Hi there folx, I run a server ( P90/PCI/etc ) under binaries from SNAP 0210 and almost -current kernel . I posted a Q here , conserning very high amount of telnetds running in the system ( out of pty's finally ) few days ago and now I have other interesting problem : if I run "last" - I c some 50-54 users being logged in, while "who" reports only 25-30 of them ... Is this normal ( I doubt it :) ? It was intersting , since system showed load average at 3-5% with reportedly only 30 online users , so finally after running "ps -axj" I was able to find a LOT of processes belonging to users , which were not logged in , accordingly to "who". Since the processes had rather decent run time , obviously there were not frozen or zombie or whatever. And "last" output shows that thir owners were actually logged in .... =-=-=-= Extra Q ( 2 for the price of 1 ) : sometimes when I start "finger [user]" , the system spends some 40-60 secs till I get the result. And I can see _huuge HDD load on the system. Sometimes it works out in few seconds . The wtmp file size is about 1Mb ( will rotate it ). The passwd file has about 1800 entries. Rashid.
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