On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 02:11:24PM -0400, nom_de_plume@altavista.net wrote:
Neat story, I must say. Far be it for me to nitpick, though, but...
"Check the source and compile" is my rule of thumb, but I was
very tired that night, and I didn't want to bother wading through
the code. I knew it was unwise to simply download and execute the
binary but, Bliss notwithstanding, there are no Linux viruses,
right? I decided to take my chances.
So, why are you worried about viruses? Trojans are a much bigger
problem.
"Tell that to the Windows and Mac CGs! Poor girls never
lasted more than a couple of hours. We had to discontinue support
for those platforms...."
:D :D :D :D :D
I sat on the toilet as the tub filled up, going over the events
of the day, pondering as one usually does during those moments of
biological relief (which Lan, for some reason, seemed to be
immune to, in spite of her ferocious appetite).
Don't ask, and don't look inside the case! :)
The towel around my waist was loosening, although it seemed in no
danger of falling.
May I ask what exactly was holding it up? :P
03:38am up 1 day, 0 hrs, 39 min, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.00
67 processes: 65 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 98.2% user, 1.8% system, 3.7% nice, 0.0% idle
Wow... 103.7% CPU usage. Those Alphas really are something. :)
Mem: 64088K av, 51270K used, 1032K free, 35768K shrd, 22176K buff
Used + free should ~= available. You've got ~12 Meg unaccounted for.
Swap: 39236K av, 248K used, 38988K free 22396K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
55 mp 16 20 12530 9582 7596 R 0 96.7 70.5 2:52 Lan
This process isn't using anywhere near 70% of the memory... more like
15%. You may want to adjust the RSS upwards... after all, I find
that Netscape routinely has an RSS of 32 Meg or so on my system. (Oink!
Oink!)
Also, it seems that the program has been running for several hours
by now, at very nearly 100% CPU. The TIME field ought to show a lot
more than 2:52. (The units are minutes:seconds, btw)
73 mp 16 0 536 536 396 R 0 2.5 0.8 0:02 top
Say, that's a lean top you've got there. Mine's 1136, 1136, and 892.
1 root 0 0 340 340 276 S 0 0.3 0.5 0:16 init
OTOH, my init is 120, 72, 48.
Also notice that the totals of the CPU usage for Lan, top, and init
are 99.5%, and none of them are niced. So, where does the 3.7% nice
come from?
Slowly, I peeked.
"GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT"
Don't you think that this General Protection ought to be busted after
committing so many faults? :)
Patti Davis smiled back at me from the cover of Playboy.
"Now I can explain that! I bought it for the Bill Gates
interview, he must be stopped at all costs!"
I've seen Billy-boy blamed for a lot of things. Heck, I've
done it quite a bit myself. This, however, is a new one
on me. :)
That night after Lan had gone to bed I logged onto the
AlphaStation at the university. I checked the memory situation
only to find that things had worsened considerably. A few deamons
daemons
08:22am up 2 days, 4 hrs, 44 min, 1 user, load average: 1.01, 1.03, 1.00
67 processes: 65 sleeping, 1 running, 7 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 99.1% user, 1.2% system, 0.7% nice, 0.0% idle
Well, now we're at 101%. I guess the memory leaks are taking their
toll. :)
Mem: 64088K av, 63111K used, 32K free, 21675K shrd, 11566K buff
Swap: 39236K av, 19248K used, 19988K free 33371K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
55 mp 16 20 54732 49521 9486 R 0 98.7 97.7 31:36 Lan
That's not using 97.7%, more like 77.3%.
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