From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 11 17:58:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3F1E14BD4 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 14355 invoked from network); 12 Sep 1999 00:58:13 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO bigfoot.com) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 1999 00:58:13 -0000 Message-ID: <37DAFA6E.E808A2A4@bigfoot.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:57:18 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CHUNG BIN Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this a bug References: <37DB3EC7.3B19@pl.jaring.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG CHUNG BIN wrote: > Currently using FreeBSD 3.0R RELEASE.Would like to inquire if this > is a bug. Telnet into the system from a Windows95/98 system, invoke > editor "ee" that comes with FreeBSD, then terminate the telnet session > without escaping or exitting ee and logout. Found out that the ee > process would not be terminted, instead the CPU consumption for ee > increase exponentially from few percent to 99.9% causing the CPU to get > overheat of extreme load. Yes, I've noticed that bug for quite a while. It exists up through at least 3.1-STABLE somewhere between 3.1-R and 3.2-R. > The telnet session could be terminated either intentionally or not. > If not intentionnally, it might be that a sudden electricity black out > occur, or that the user unintentionally terminated the session, just > like what a user of my FreeBSD powered system did.If it is intentioned, > I suppose this bug could pose a threat to the system in that it can be > used as a DOS, overheating the CPU and bring the system down. It wouldn't overheat the CPU. The only problem it causes for me is that my load average goes up and my long-running niced daemons suffer a bit. --Ludwig Pummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message