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Date:      Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:21:46 +1000
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-security@mawer.org>
To:        nielsen@memberwebs.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, talonz <talonz@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ee using 99% cpu after user ssh session terminates abnormaly
Message-ID:  <431F841A.1060302@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050908001830.6A33270DCDB@mail.npubs.com>
References:  <431F6941.20006@gmail.com> <20050908001830.6A33270DCDB@mail.npubs.com>

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On 8/09/2005 10:18 AM, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> talonz wrote:
>>Recently i have been using a dialup 56k account to access the net
>>and have noticed that when my ssh session times out and I am editing
>>a file in ` ee ' the system goes to 99% cpu usage and stays like
>>this till the pid is killed.
>>This is a standard user account (not root/su)
> 
> This happens all the time on servers I manage. It's a real pain because
> it's hard to see the actual load of the machine. We have a dumb hack of
> a script that kill these off when they happen.

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.

Cheers
Antony




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