ee using 99% cpu after user ssh session terminates abnormaly

[Yar Tikhiy]

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