Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:18:31 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c inetd.h Message-ID: <19990723151831.D10047@internal> In-Reply-To: <42091.932735352@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 03:09:12PM %2B0200 References: <19990723150602.B10047@internal> <42091.932735352@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Fri, 23-Jul-1999 at 15:09:12 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:06:02 +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > But when inetd is run without -l it get 100%. > > Are you avoiding my question on purpose? :-) Sorry. The machine wasn't stressed by other programs so it was "the only significant user of CPU and so showed up at close to 100% CPU usage". But when I logged into it to kill and restart inetd the machine was responding very slow. > > On Fri, 23-Jul-1999 at 14:29:19 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > > What does "sucking all the CPU time" mean? Does it mean that other > > > programs were suffering, or does it mean that it was the only > > > significant user of CPU and so showed up at close to 100% CPU usage? > > I don't care how the usage is split over syslog and inetd. What I want > to know is whether their combined usage of the CPU causes a serious > problem for other CPU-bound processes. Yes. > > After all, you _have_ asked the inetd+syslog pair to do a lot of work. Why? I start nmap, it scans the ports and inetd has for sure a lot of logging work to do. But at some time, the scan is finished but inetd continues to consume CPU time endlessly. Maybe I am just confused and this behaviour is normal ... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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