On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:21:46AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 8/09/2005 10:18 AM, Nate Nielsen wrote: > > talonz wrote: > >>Recently i have been using a dialup 56k account to access the net > >>and have noticed that when my ssh session times out and I am editing > >>a file in ` ee ' the system goes to 99% cpu usage and stays like > >>this till the pid is killed. > >>This is a standard user account (not root/su) > > > > This happens all the time on servers I manage. It's a real pain because > > it's hard to see the actual load of the machine. We have a dumb hack of > > a script that kill these off when they happen. > > Another "me too" -- usually when we notice our server (running FreeBSD > 4.11) starting to crawl, the culprit is an "ee" session using up 99% > cpu. I just reproduced it then by logging in via ssh, running "ee" (not > opening any file) and then killing the Putty window.
BTW, isn't the problem in bin/65892? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65892 -- Yar _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"