From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 02:15:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA18668 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 02:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA18651; Thu, 23 May 1996 02:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA10427; Thu, 23 May 1996 04:15:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 04:15:39 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Shaun Finn cc: Gary Palmer , Glen Foster , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: runaway processes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 May 1996, Shaun Finn wrote: > >Glen Foster wrote in message ID > ><199605222016.QAA00568@ptavv.nsta.org>: > >> When a user logs off without exiting pine the processes begin using > >> lots of CPU and cannot be killed with -INT. Has a fix or workaround > >> been developed for this? (Yeah, I know, don't run pine :-)! > >This is a bug in pine. Try ``kill -9 ''. That should do it nicely > >:-) There is an update to pine (if I remember), but the new version > >may have other problems too... > We have used pine 3.91 thru 3.93 and the problem persists ;-) I was killing pine-3.91 processes at least twice a day, since upgrading to 3.93 that number is down to one or two a week. We've got more users now too... The problem isn't gone, but I've experienced it alot less. Have a good one. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|