On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:17:15 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 i was able to do this with mcedit as well. sometimes after working with mcedit in a konsole, if i simply close the window without exiting mcedit, it keeps running in the background taking up to 90% of my cpu.. however it doesn't happen every time and i have to try several times to reproduce it. Damian
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