From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 19 9: 2: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from surf.iae.nl (surf.IAE.nl [194.151.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4510014C28; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:01:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arikkert@surf.IAE.nl) Received: by surf.iae.nl (Postfix, from userid 12701) id 79DD69757; Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surf.iae.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 216009BC; Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:58 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andre Rikkert de Koe To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I sent this question to newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc but I found the two answers I got not sufficient. The answers were like "it's inherent to Unix" and "Just kill those processes". So now I'm trying the mailing list. ------------ Hello FreeBSD users, We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs. We are sure that they were started to run in foreground. However in the top-example "brouwert" was not logged in at that moment. Only thing we can do is to kill the proces. Does anyone has a clue what's the cause of this ? last pid: 67601; load averages: 1.37, 1.44, 1.38 up 8+05:09:52 14:31:33 261 processes: 5 running, 254 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie Mem: 160M Active, 36M Inact, 35M Wired, 12M Cache, 8344K Buf, 5572K Free Swap: 570M Total, 55M Used, 516M Free, 10% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 39448 brouwert 84 0 2240K 1668K RUN 74:51 79.59% 79.59% lynx 67582 arikkert 47 0 2004K 1052K RUN 0:01 37.00% 1.81% top 60019 root 2 0 10520K 10224K RUN 0:32 0.98% 0.98% named {rest of top-output is cut} Andre Rikkert de Koe Internet Access Eindhoven email : arikkert@iae.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message