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Subject: Re: ee using 99% cpu after user ssh session terminates abnormaly
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Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:21:46AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
>>Another "me too" -- usually when we notice our server (running FreeBSD
>>4.11) starting to crawl, the culprit is an "ee" session using up 99%
>>cpu. I just reproduced it then by logging in via ssh, running "ee" (not
>>opening any file) and then killing the Putty window.
> 
> 
> BTW, isn't the problem in bin/65892?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65892

For the record the same thing happens with basically any ncurses
program. Midnight commander has the same behavior for example.

Cheers,
Nate