From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 11:59:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA16854 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:59:42 -0800 Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16849 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 11:59:39 -0800 Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) id OAA05515; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 14:58:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 14:58:59 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens To: questions list FreeBSD Subject: CPU usage of "talk" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm seeing some major CPU usage from talk. Here's the 'top' output for two users who have telneted in to a P50 box running 2.0.5-RELEASE: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 4999 slatera 93 0 236K 636K run 3:26 47.65% 47.65% talk 4983 holmesa 94 0 236K 636K run 5:28 46.58% 46.58% talk Here's the PS output. They're talking to each other... USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND slatera 4999 60.9 2.1 236 636 p1- R 2:31PM 4:13.48 /usr/bin/talk holmesa holmesa 4983 61.1 2.1 236 636 p0- R 2:31PM 6:15.69 /usr/bin/talk slatera Does anyone have any idea why there would be some much CPU usage? thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------