Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alex Pikus <> | Subject | and W ... RE: Linux 2.0 | Date | Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:26:22 -0500 |
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When I so `w` I see all the users but not what processes they are running ... just shows a "-"
What gives?
Alex.
PS. I am on 1.99.14
---------- From: Russell Berry[SMTP:rberry@magik.albany.net] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 1996 5:18 PM To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Linux 2.0
A couple of things about releases 1.99.1[012(3)] have come to my attention, and I thought I would bring them to yours. I upgraded _everything_ to the most recent version, but maybe I'm still missing something here.
Upon doing a 'who', I see people logged into the same pty at the same time, subsequently ps -aux|grep 'person' doesn't show a thing, because that person isn't logged in anymore! Netstat shows lots of net connections that have long since closed, in such states as FIN_WAIT 2. Of course I _haven't_ really upgraded that, as I still have inode numbers instead of file/directory names in the lower netstat listings.
Another thing is swapping. I watch mem/swap usage a lot, and I can watch the machine go from several meg free, with no swap space used at boot, up, then fire up X, netscape, nedit, dosemu, wine, and compile a new kernel all at the same time, and I watch mem go to 131K available, and a little over half of my 16Meg swap used. I suppose _this_ is normal, however, upon closing all these apps, shutting down X, and returning to my barely multiuser state, swap is still very active, mem only came up a couple of meg, and general network performance seems sluggish, as compared to the state of post boot before all the apps and X. Restarting X, and just a couple of apps at this point will send the load average to nearly 3.5, for the brief period until everything starts, then the swap is eaten almost entirely for the duration. After the machine sits in this state overnight, the load drops to around .30, the swap is still sitting around 12 Meg used, and the mouse, ppp, and window switching seems very slow.
These are my observations, I _REALLY_ wish I could have taken more time to dig into the code, though my only linux box is at work. As soon as I get one at home I'll be a more active participant in this project. These things I mention here I feel are important, I have noticed other little quirks here and there, other people have mentioned them, so I won't, the quirks know who they are! :-) And yes, I found the damn 1.99.13 pty fluke as soon as I logged into my machine at work tonight from home, then later read that 1.99.14 takes care of this. Is 14 it?
Regards.
---russ
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