Re: ee using 99% cpu after user ssh session terminates abnormaly

From: Antony Mawer (fbsd-security_at_mawer.org)
Date: 09/08/05

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    Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:21:46 +1000
To: nielsen@memberwebs.com

    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.

    Cheers
    Antony

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