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

From: Yar Tikhiy (yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su)
Date: 09/09/05

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    Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:33:28 +0400
    To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-security@mawer.org>
    
    

    On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:21:46AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
    > 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.

    BTW, isn't the problem in bin/65892?

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65892

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    Yar
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