On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 at 07:13, Brendan Reilly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using w over time demonstrated the problem.
> Machine is rarely rebooted.
>
Hi,
Can you provide some more details, a sample output perhaps?
Do you mean the user count that appears in the first line, or do you mean
that you have many rows of users?
Can you confirm you're using systemd?
What is the output of the loginctl command?
- Craig
% w
09:15:23 up 34 days, 10:46, 174 users, load average: 0.20, 0.09, 0.16
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
reilly 108.29.139.238 08:46 0.00s 0.01s sshd-session:
reill
reilly 192.168.1.183 08:43 0.00s 0.01s sshd-session:
reill
reilly 192.168.1.183 08:43 0.00s 0.01s sshd-session:
reill
% loginctl
SESSION UID USER SEAT LEADER CLASS TTY IDLE SINCE
100089 6631 reilly - 67781 user - no -
100097 6631 reilly - 69574 user - no -
100098 6631 reilly - 69628 user - no -
100703 6631 reilly - 181062 user - no -
100739 6631 reilly - 187091 user - no -
100749 6631 reilly - 187780 user - no -
100752 6631 reilly - 187822 user - no -
101148 6631 reilly - 289755 user - no -
101211 6631 reilly - 310621 user - no -
101225 6631 reilly - 312558 user - no -
101226 6631 reilly - 312606 user - no -
103665 6631 reilly - 1922627 user - no -
103666 6631 reilly - 1922664 user - no -
104035 6631 reilly - 2061688 user - no -
105640 6631 reilly - 2388345 user - no -
108191 6631 reilly - 4006514 user - no -
108273 6631 reilly - 4018830 user - no -
108462 6631 reilly - 4077139 user - no -
108538 6631 reilly - 4088897 user - no -
108594 6631 reilly - 4102941 user - no -
108628 6631 reilly - 4107473 user - no -
108634 6631 reilly - 4108057 user - no -
108637 6631 reilly - 4108727 user - no -
108647 6631 reilly - 4109127 user - no -
108652 6631 reilly - 4109773 user - no -
108691 6631 reilly - 465062 user - no -
108695 6631 reilly - 466140 user - no -
108705 6631 reilly - 470145 user - no -
108706 6631 reilly - 470157 user - no -
108982 6631 reilly - 536927 user - no -
108989 6631 reilly - 537198 user - no -
109107 6631 reilly - 558368 user - no -
109123 6631 reilly - 561217 user - no -
109151 6631 reilly - 567820 user - no -
109165 6631 reilly - 570690 user - no -
109212 6631 reilly - 578023 user - no -
109246 6631 reilly - 583404 user - no -
109342 6631 reilly - 610044 user - no -
109377 6631 reilly - 615491 user - no -
109378 6631 reilly - 615545 user - no -
110781 6631 reilly - 876674 user - no -
111773 6631 reilly - 2234227 user - no -
111774 6631 reilly - 2234283 user - no -
112236 6631 reilly - 2565625 user - no -
113144 6631 reilly - 2776183 user - no -
114449 6631 reilly - 3008619 user - no -
116107 6631 reilly - 402111 user - no -
116122 6631 reilly - 403901 user - no -
116125 6631 reilly - 404713 user - no -
116126 6631 reilly - 404759 user - no -
116570 6631 reilly - 507325 user - no -
118248 6631 reilly - 864311 user - no -
118624 6631 reilly - 932946 user - no -
120050 6631 reilly - 2373424 user - no -
120051 6631 reilly - 2373485 user - no -
120107 6631 reilly - 2500507 user - no -
120457 6631 reilly - 2564536 user - no -
120528 6631 reilly - 2574208 user - no -
120670 6631 reilly - 2611067 user - no -
121328 6631 reilly - 2777399 user - no -
122360 6631 reilly - 2956266 user - no -
124194 6631 reilly - 323692 user - no -
124195 6631 reilly - 323761 user - no -
124351 6631 reilly - 351947 user - no -
125480 6631 reilly - 552831 user - no -
128086 6631 reilly - 2193535 user - no -
128087 6631 reilly - 2193584 user - no -
128481 6631 reilly - 2334229 user - no -
129096 6631 reilly - 2443602 user - no -
129122 1021 edison - 2447724 user - no -
129123 1021 edison - 2447758 manager - no -
129124 6631 reilly - 2447747 user - no -
129131 6631 reilly - 2447943 user - no -
129133 6631 reilly - 2448010 user - no -
129680 6631 reilly - 2532468 user - no -
129784 6631 reilly - 2554748 user - no -
129785 6631 reilly - 2554798 user - no -
130582 6631 reilly - 2693309 user - no -
132281 6631 reilly - 68153 user - no -
132282 6631 reilly - 68226 user - no -
132572 6631 reilly - 126479 user - no -
133657 6631 reilly - 335927 user - no -
133944 6631 reilly - 380990 user - no -
134013 6631 reilly - 392790 user - no -
134054 6631 reilly - 399322 user - no -
134200 6631 reilly - 423026 user - no -
134284 6631 reilly - 439328 user - no -
134311 6631 reilly - 443407 user - no -
134390 6631 reilly - 457375 user - no -
134418 6631 reilly - 466182 user - no -
136640 6631 reilly - 2135020 user - no -
136641 6631 reilly - 2135319 user - no -
136654 6631 reilly - 2142276 user - no -
137728 6631 reilly - 2363761 user - no -
140708 6631 reilly - 4170371 user - no -
140709 6631 reilly - 4170411 user - no -
140720 6631 reilly - 4172521 user - no -
63359 6631 reilly - 1681428 user - no -
63360 6631 reilly - 1681476 user - no -
63649 6631 reilly - 1741308 user - no -
67291 6631 reilly - 3680498 user - no -
67292 6631 reilly - 3680549 user - no -
67523 6631 reilly - 3721871 user - no -
68980 6631 reilly - 3984780 user - no -
69242 6631 reilly - 4026951 user - no -
7 6631 reilly seat0 2976 user tty1 yes 1 month 3 days ago
71479 6631 reilly - 1448753 user - no -
71481 6631 reilly - 1449077 user - no -
71482 6631 reilly - 1449126 user - no -
72015 6631 reilly - 1543666 user - no -
72063 6631 reilly - 1551342 user - no -
72079 6631 reilly - 1553548 user - no -
74168 6631 reilly - 1918360 user - no -
74997 6631 reilly - 2899665 user - no -
74998 6631 reilly - 2899713 user - no -
75802 6631 reilly - 3444870 user - no -
76727 6631 reilly - 3617579 user - no -
77915 6631 reilly - 3833318 user - no -
79368 6631 reilly - 1073268 user - no -
79680 6631 reilly - 1260477 user - no -
79698 6631 reilly - 1265045 user - no -
79861 6631 reilly - 1297912 user - no -
79867 6631 reilly - 1298112 user - no -
79873 6631 reilly - 1299748 user - no -
8 6631 reilly - 13290 manager - no -
80350 6631 reilly - 1397201 user - no -
80497 6631 reilly - 1424474 user - no -
80783 6631 reilly - 1480484 user - no -
80797 6631 reilly - 1483363 user - no -
80822 6631 reilly - 1486411 user - no -
80955 6631 reilly - 1517852 user - no -
80956 6631 reilly - 1517901 user - no -
81119 6631 reilly - 1548590 user - no -
81707 6631 reilly - 1663580 user - no -
83439 6631 reilly - 3165370 user - no -
83440 6631 reilly - 3165642 user - no -
83529 6631 reilly - 3427997 user - no -
83679 6631 reilly - 3465698 user - no -
85060 6631 reilly - 3734201 user - no -
87691 6631 reilly - 1787751 user - no -
87692 6631 reilly - 1787787 user - no -
87977 6631 reilly - 1847232 user - no -
88771 6631 reilly - 2040518 user - no -
88791 6631 reilly - 2043138 user - no -
88833 6631 reilly - 2048348 user - no -
88836 6631 reilly - 2050315 user - no -
88946 6631 reilly - 2069103 user - no -
88957 6631 reilly - 2069481 user - no -
88959 6631 reilly - 2069516 user - no -
89337 6631 reilly - 2144632 user - no -
89412 6631 reilly - 2154937 user - no -
90165 6631 reilly - 2295745 user - no -
90178 6631 reilly - 2299874 user - no -
90204 6631 reilly - 2304466 user - no -
90332 6631 reilly - 2330126 user - no -
90333 6631 reilly - 2330174 user - no -
91503 6631 reilly - 3726929 user - no -
91649 6631 reilly - 3997895 user - no -
91691 6631 reilly - 4054028 user - no -
92016 6631 reilly - 4132838 user - no -
92050 6631 reilly - 4140688 user - no -
92085 6631 reilly - 4145236 user - no -
92089 6631 reilly - 4145590 user - no -
92091 6631 reilly - 4145665 user - no -
92308 6631 reilly - 10283 user - no -
92664 6631 reilly - 88873 user - no -
92665 6631 reilly - 88921 user - no -
92831 6631 reilly - 135885 user - no -
92968 6631 reilly - 186896 user - no -
93003 6631 reilly - 192377 user - no -
93004 6631 reilly - 192425 user - no -
94588 6631 reilly - 502181 user - no -
95760 6631 reilly - 2053693 user - no -
95769 6631 reilly - 2055517 user - no -
95770 6631 reilly - 2055567 user - no -
97828 6631 reilly - 2521087 user - no -
176 sessions listed.
% ps -axuwuw|grep systemd
root 303 0.0 2.0 294984 57664 ? Ss Jan14 24:19
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
systemd+ 349 0.0 0.1 91808 3292 ? Ssl Jan14 0:15
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
root 357 0.0 0.1 38228 3808 ? Ss Jan14 0:07
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
message+ 2920 0.0 0.1 10804 3104 ? Ss Jan14 0:39
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile
--systemd-activation --syslog-only
root 2952 0.0 0.2 21504 5936 ? Ss Jan14 0:26
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
reilly 13290 0.0 0.1 22464 4576 ? Ss Jan14 0:00
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
reilly 13313 0.0 0.0 10188 1732 ? Ss Jan14 0:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile
--systemd-activation --syslog-only
edison 2447758 0.0 0.2 22408 5976 ? Ss Feb15 0:00
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
edison 2447798 0.0 0.1 10188 3900 ? Ss Feb15 0:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile
--systemd-activation --syslog-only
reilly 4193386 0.0 0.0 3508 1808 pts/6 S+ 09:17 0:00 /bin/grep
--exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=RCS -d skip systemd
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