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From: dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,talk.bizarre
Subject: Wasting system resources
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Date: 7 Jan 88 03:23:51 GMT
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Reply-To: dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen)
Organization: Computing Services Division, UW Milwaukee
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The system I work on has gotten awfully bogged down lately, although it's
better than the last couple weeks of classes. Some things we do include
regulating games based on load, and asking people not to run too many
background jobs that run forever, in hopes of giving everyone a fair slice
of pie. Sometimes people screw up though and we are forced to intercede on
their behalf and terminate their jobs.

For instance, there's this guy named root who always runs these big programs
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TTY   STAT  TIME COMMAND
root         2  0.3  0.5 6528    0 ?     D     8:46 pagedaemon
root       210  0.2  0.1    5    3 ?     S    13:39 /etc/update
root       221  0.1  0.5   49   26 ?     S    11:54 /etc/rwhod
root         0  0.1  0.1    0    0 ?     D     1:28 swapper
root        78  0.1  1.0  230   55 ?     S     3:57 /etc/named /etc/named.boot
root       225  0.0  0.8   60   42 ?     S     0:46 /etc/inetd
root         1  0.0  0.9   63   48 ?     S     2:05 init

This is really annoying. I've never even talked to this guy, and he's always
running the same programs. I mean, some of those things aren't too bad, but
I bet if I kill off that "pagedaemon" program things will really speed up! :-)

Anyone else ever have these problems?

O&*^!#@$ Hey, who turned off the lights? Oh, muffin queen, you really know
how to turn a hacker on!

Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee
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