CPU Utilization
Yeazel, Troy
Troy.Yeazel at gentiva.com
Fri Mar 10 10:41:56 EST 2000
When using sudo to run a process that doesn't exit immediately, such as a
shell, the sudo process eats up all available CPU on my systems (Digital
UNIX). I initially
noticed this behavior in in version 1.6.2p1, but I've verified the same
thing happens with 1.6.2p3.
load averages: 1.02, 1.02, 0.93
09:33:01
63 processes: 2 running, 17 sleeping, 43 idle, 1 zombie
CPU states: 26.4% user, 0.0% nice, 73.5% system, 0.0% idle
Memory: Real: 93M/181M act/tot Virtual: 10M/287M use/tot Free: 44M
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
30309 root 51 0 1928K 294K run 1:18 96.70% sudo
15854 tcyeazel 44 0 14M 7012K sleep 0:01 2.20% dxterm
15221 root 44 0 2608K 417K run 0:01 0.30% top
65 root 42 0 1688K 57K sleep 14:57 0.00% update
242 root 42 0 1696K 90K sleep 8:49 0.00% rwhod
24221 maestro 44 0 2400K 294K sleep 7:00 0.00% netman
19867 root 44 0 3984K 311K sleep 2:30 0.00% nmbd
11869 maestro 42 0 3304K 1032K sleep 1:12 0.00% batchman
11721 maestro 42 0 2600K 401K sleep 0:40 0.00% mailman
392 root 42 0 2408K 229K sleep 0:14 0.00% mountd
487 root 32 -12 2160K 303K sleep 0:09 0.00% xntpd
12046 root 42 0 2616K 393K sleep 0:08 0.00% JOBMAN
355 root 44 0 2240K 139K sleep 0:03 0.00% portmap
150 root 44 0 1776K 180K sleep 0:02 0.00% syslogd
6616 root 44 0 2864K 81K sleep 0:02 0.00% httpd
Has anyone looked into a fix for this behavior?
Troy
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