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From: law@mtunb.ATT.COM (Larry Weber)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIX PC User Agent weirdness?
Message-ID: <1177@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 14:17:10 GMT
References: <270@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: law@mtunb.UUCP (was-Larry Weber)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <270@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>Strange thing happened a while ago, I spawned a "user agent (ua)" process
>to do some work.  I returned to the window with my shell, and the user
>agent stayed idle.  About 5 minutes later I noticed the machine running
>VERY SLOW.... then I did a ps and the ua process had 30 seconds of CPU
>time and it was gaining fast...  I killed the process and the machine
>returned back to normal speed.  Why did this happen?

There is a bug in UA. When it does not have control of the current window,
it calls wait() waiting for a window signal. This is not a very smart thing
to do when you have no child processes. 

	Larry Weber
	mtunb!law