From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 12:17:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA17744 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 12:17:14 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA17739 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 12:17:11 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA25466; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:16:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:16:31 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9511082016.AA25466@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Charles Owens Cc: questions list FreeBSD Subject: CPU usage of "talk" In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 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 That `-' is the big hint. `talk' is another one of those broken programs that assumes that input can never fail. Both of these processes are spinning in loops attempting to read from a revoked terminal and ignoring the resulting error return. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant