James wrote on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:36:23PM +0000 : > > 98% of my CPU.......... > The program ...... VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was > slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or > better yet can anyone else duplicate it. I'd like to know if this is a > bug or a one off.
I can reproduce this since RedHat version 6.2, but only in an error scenario. 1) ssh to a box. Any box, it doesn't matter. 'vi file' 2) close the window that you ssh'd from (or let it time-out if you ssh'd to a remote box outside of your firewall, ie not on your local lan) 3) ssh back to that box and you'll see that it is consuming 99% CPU I don't have a technical reason why it happens, but it does. (seems to be related to vi losing its controlling terminal). You have to kill -9 it get rid of it. killall -9 vi works too. As for why it did this to you on a still running instance of vi, I'm not sure. A surefire way of finding this in the future is to do a ps ax or ps aux and look for a process with a very high CPU time number. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk
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