On Thu, 20 May 1999, The Tech-Admin Dude wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine.. > so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :).
Blast from the past, but since no one gave you an answer, here is one suggestion. I used to have this problem all the time until I discovered that top obeys environment variables. So, you could put the following in /etc/login.conf (make sure to rebuild the db after editing): :setenv=TOP='-I -d5' The -I just means "don't display idle processes," the -d5 means "do 5 cycles then exit." Both are overridable from the command line. You might want to set the -d value higher so that it's more transparent to the user, but after setting this up I've never had another runaway top process. HTH, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message