Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:09:06 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: John Clark <jc@netview.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pine maxes host out... Message-ID: <199608071809.SAA02538@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960806155116.009983a8@netview.net> from "John Clark" at Aug 6, 96 03:50:26 pm
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> I have an occasional problem with pine under FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE. See how > this process (below) becomes detached from the user and eats CPU time like > nobody's business? > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > username 143 126.9 10.5 3160 3248 p0- RN 1:12PM 34:00.91 pine > > I can kill -9 the process ok, and things return to normal... it is just that > sometimes this goes on for hours before I get to it, yielding .99 (or so) > utilization in the mean time. > > Does anyone know why this is, or what can be done about it? Probably a bug in pine sending it into an infinite loop. It's useful to leave something like top or xperfmon++ (both in the ports) running and glance at them occasionally, so you can see if any programs are hogging the CPU. (Careful though - xperfmon++ has a memory leak and will become amazingly bloated if you don't stop and restart it every now and again).
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