[6018] in Athena Bugs
nasty leftover processes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rsargent@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 13 10:02:23 1990
From: rsargent@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 10:02:10 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I've noticed, for the new release, that ALMOST EVERY TIME I LOG IN, there
are nasty leftover processes eating up CPU time. This happened
occasionally during the last release, but seems to happen much more often
in this one. An example:
/mit/rsargent% ps -aux | more
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND
24128 79.6 3.4 970 396 v0 R N 19184:40 /usr/athena/emacs
rsargent 18336 9.8 2.2 161 137 p2 R 0:00 ps -aux
...
Often there are two or three. Usually they are an emacs process, although
I've seen others as well. They really slow down the machine, and I feel
sorry for the people who don't know how to find these processes and kill
them.
I only use VAXstation 3100s, so I don't know if the problem occurs on other
machines. The problem occurs on both normal and test machines running
their respective versions of release 7.1.
Thanks, and good luck.
Randy Sargent
