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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 1995 00:13:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        brian@pop.jaring.my (Brian O'Connor)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Miscellaneous questions.
Message-ID:  <199506112213.AAA02664@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199506112106.FAA17480@relay4.jaring.my> from "Brian O'Connor" at Jun 12, 95 05:07:01 am

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As Brian O'Connor wrote:
> 
> 
> 3. The xlock program (in the version on the CD) does not handle the 
> long strings produced by the password encryption algorithm.  I believe a later 
> version of xlock addresses this.

Indeed.  The version that's currently in `ports' has the following
comment in the Revisions file:

2.0
  ...
  In order to use extra-long passwords with the Linux, changed
    PASSLENGTH from 20 to 64.  Thanks to <slouken@virtbrew.water.ca.gov>.

... so we are not alone with our long passwords. :-)

(Btw., the name of the package has been changed to `xlockmore', since
the original `xlock' is no longer maintained.  In case you haven't
seen it yet, try again the `maze', `image' and `life' modi. :--)

> 4. The load average figures printed out in response to the w and uptime 
> commands go to zero after a prolonged period (10 -14 days).

Seems to be fixed; i haven't seen obviously bogus loadavg figures in
any recent system -- and i usually to run `xload' within the
`GoodStuff' window of fvwm.

> 9. The memory stats for the ps -aux command never move off zero percent.

Seems to be fixed, too:

j@uriah 59% ps -aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
root      2547  0.0  1.4   500  188 p5  R+   11:58PM    0:00.05 ps -aux
root         1  0.0  0.0   428   48 ??  IWs   1:16PM    0:00.30 /sbin/init --
root         2  0.0  0.1     0   12 ??  DL    1:16PM    0:09.91  (pagedaemon)
root         3  0.0  0.1     0   12 ??  DL    1:16PM    0:05.96  (vmdaemon)
root         4  0.0  0.1     0   12 ??  DL    1:16PM    0:11.34  (update)
root        55  0.0  1.1   188  148 ??  Ss    1:17PM    0:01.59 syslogd
root        66  0.0  0.9   268  120 ??  Ss    1:17PM    0:01.86 cron
...
root       748  0.9 16.3  4224 2324 ??  S     1:53PM   11:27.44 /usr/X11R6/bin/
root       749  0.0  0.0   408    0 v0  IW    1:53PM    0:00.39 -:0            
j          774  0.0  0.0   504    0 v0  IW    1:56PM    0:00.19 /bin/sh /home/j
j          792  0.0  1.2   240  168 v0  I     1:56PM    3:06.97 beforelight
j          793  0.0  1.9   496  268 v0  S     1:56PM    0:09.58 fvwm
root       794  0.0  2.2   536  300 v0  I     1:56PM    0:01.27 xterm -g 80x24+
...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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