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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!chenab.lums.edu.pk!chenab.lums.edu.pk!not-for-mail From: aslam@lums.edu.pk (Sohail Aslam) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Pine uses huge amount of cpu time - why? Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:53:34 +0500 Organization: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4jbvau$mrs@chenab.lums.edu.pk> NNTP-Posting-Host: chenab.lums.edu.pk I installed the pine package from the walnut FreeBSD 2.0.5 CD. The pine version is 3.91. At times, the telnet sessions abort and pine is left running. Why does pine use huge amount of cpu time? Here are top few line of ps -aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND b97009 22300 62.4 3.3 1760 464 p0- RN Sun11PM 2797:32.90 pine b97068 26775 62.8 3.3 1468 464 p1- RN Tue12AM 1369:02.89 pine The output of ps was taken on wednesday. The second line show a day old pine; the user is long gone. The machine is and AST with 486/66MHz chip, 16MB memory and 1GB disk running 2.0.5 FreeBSD. -- Sohail Aslam Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Lahore, Pakistan tel: 92-42-572-2670 fax: 92-42-572-2591 email: aslam@lums.edu.pk