From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 13:18:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA23156 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.nsta.org (ptavv.gfoster.com [199.0.2.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23148 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gfoster@localhost) by ptavv.nsta.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA00568; Wed, 22 May 1996 16:16:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:16:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Glen Foster Message-Id: <199605222016.QAA00568@ptavv.nsta.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: runaway processes Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk System is 2.1R, pine is from the package. When a user logs off without exiting pine the processes begin using lots of CPU and cannot be killed with -INT. Has a fix or workaround been developed for this? (Yeah, I know, don't run pine :-)! e.g.: top load averages: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 16:04:57 72 processes: 3 running, 68 sleeping, 1 stopped Cpu states: 1.2% user, 0.0% nice, 96.9% system, 1.9% interrupt, 0.0% idle Memory: Real: 4760K/30220K Virt: 90200K/5011524K Free: 4044K PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 10704 ******** 105 4 1336K 20K run 502:00 60.99% 60.99% pine 10585 ******** 105 4 2024K 20K run 623:48 59.13% 59.13% pine 13168 ******** 31 0 404K 800K run 0:00 1.68% 0.93% top 13170 ******** 3 0 460K 280K sleep 0:00 1.53% 0.73% csh ps axl UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1010 10585 1 256 100 4 2024 20 - RN p1- 625:44.48 pine 1009 10704 1 255 99 4 1336 20 - RN p1- 503:55.88 pine TIA, Glen Foster