Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 19:34:14 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Huuuge discrepancy between "last" and "who" Message-ID: <10759.798172454@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 95 22:24:34 EDT." <199504180224.WAA26508@haven.ios.com>
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1. Don't cc both -hackers and -questions. One or the other, please! :-)
2. Don't run the 0210 bins and -current kernel together. It doesn't work
very well. A number of kernel structures have changed and the utilities
must be compiled to match it. I recommend doing a `make World' from
-current.
> Hi there folx,
>
>
> I run a server ( P90/PCI/etc ) under binaries from
> SNAP 0210 and almost -current kernel .
> I posted a Q here , conserning very high amount
> of telnetds running in the system ( out of pty's
> finally ) few days ago and now I have other interesting
> problem :
>
> if I run "last" - I c some 50-54 users being logged in,
> while "who" reports only 25-30 of them ...
> Is this normal ( I doubt it :) ?
>
> It was intersting , since system showed load average
> at 3-5% with reportedly only 30 online users , so
> finally after running "ps -axj" I was able to find
> a LOT of processes belonging to users , which were
> not logged in , accordingly to "who".
> Since the processes had rather decent run time ,
> obviously there were not frozen or zombie or whatever.
> And "last" output shows that thir owners were actually
> logged in ....
>
>
> =-=-=-= Extra Q ( 2 for the price of 1 ) :
>
> sometimes when I start "finger [user]" , the system
> spends some 40-60 secs till I get the result.
> And I can see _huuge HDD load on the system.
> Sometimes it works out in few seconds .
> The wtmp file size is about 1Mb ( will rotate it ).
> The passwd file has about 1800 entries.
>
>
> Rashid.
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