From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 13:50:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA21383 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net1.netview.net (netview.net [199.3.74.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21369 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona ([199.3.71.88]) by net1.netview.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA13714 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:50:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:50:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960806155116.009983a8@netview.net> X-Sender: jrclark@netview.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: Pine maxes host out... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have an occasional problem with pine under FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE. See how this process (below) becomes detached from the user and eats CPU time like nobody's business? USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND username 143 126.9 10.5 3160 3248 p0- RN 1:12PM 34:00.91 pine I can kill -9 the process ok, and things return to normal... it is just that sometimes this goes on for hours before I get to it, yielding .99 (or so) utilization in the mean time. Does anyone know why this is, or what can be done about it? Thanks. **************************************** John Clark jc@netview.net NetView Communications http://www.netview.net ****************************************