Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 08:12:53 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Pine running wild Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970107075459.29399A-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>
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Every so often, I'll notice our server is working harder than usual. I'll log in and find a copy of pine consuming 80-90% of the cpu time. If not caught, it will go on like this for hours. The user is not logged in, it may be caused when a user loses their intetnet connection. However, I lose my connection all the time in pine and it never happens. In fact, 95% of the time, it's the same user. 1) Why would this be isolated to a single user? What's the real underlying cause? 2) I'm thinking of writing a perl script to spot and kill these processes. However, how would I identify them? Probably at any given moment, a non-running-amok pine would use 80-90% of the cpu, perhaps I could track that pine over 5-10 seconds and kill ones that continue at this rate? Cliff
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