Ssh sessions running top keep disconnecting

[bob prohaska]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 07:39:44PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-Jun-3, at 19:02, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > For some reason, ssh sessions running top seem to be quitting
> > with
> > packet_write_wait: Connection to 50.1.20.25 port 22: Broken pipe
> > 
> > I'm in the habit of leaving an ssh session running top going on
> > machines running long jobs like world or port builds. On my Pi3
> > running 12.1-stable those sessions keep disconnecting. No other
> > ssh sessions, among the four open, seem to be affected.
> > 
> > The client is a Pi3b+ running raspberry pi os. It has a dozen
> > or so ssh sessions open, no others are affected.
> > 

> top keeps its ssh connection in use on a rather
> frequent basis, even if the mount of traffic is
> not large.
> 
> Try having some other ssh session into the 12.1
> Stable FreeBSD system that also keeps its ssh
> connection in use on a rather frequent basis.
> Does it get the same issue as the top sessions
> do? (Need not be at the same times but if the
> times were near each other for failures that
> might indicate something.)
> 

Tried leaving a gstat session running to keep 
the top session company while attempting to 
compile www/chromium. Both stayed up. The
build of www/chromium failed, after running all 
night, with the missing asm/hwcap.h error. 8-(

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska