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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:20:20 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xterm question 
Message-ID:  <199707180420.WAA16617@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:46:54 CDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.970717224354.1589A-100000@tundra.winternet.com> 

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Hi,

> I am running current from a few days ago (7-16-97), and I am seeing
> something weird with my xterms.  Actually, it might not be the xterms, it
> might be finger and w.  I notice that after X has been running, suddenly
> doing a w or a finger shows that all users have been idle for the same
> amount of time, usually the amount of time for the least idle window I
> have open.  I only use X, so I havent tested this without X.  Does anyone
> else see these problems?
> 
> System is a dual P133, 64MB RAM, 2GB EIDE disk.
> FreeBSD hope.winternet.com 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jul 17
> 07:35:45 CDT 1997     root@hope.winternet.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOPE
> i386
> 
> Kyle Mestery
> StorageTek's Network Systems Group
> 7600 Boone Ave. N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
> mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com
> 

Are you running the SMP kernel?   If so that *might* be the problem, proper
handling of the timer code is still lacking in many areas.
Or SMP might have nothing to do with it...

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