Heh. Never seen THIS before.

[cjlowe]

One of my work servers did something interesting... see the attachment.

What you're looking at is a utility called htop. It basically does the same thing as top, but with a higher prettiness factor. The graphs top-left show you CPU usage - CPU 3 is at 100% usage. When we look at the list of currently-running processes, we find the cause is nano snmpd.conf, which has been running nearly a day. I confronted my colleague and found that he had used nano to edit a file the day before.

Basically, this is the equivalent of leaving Notepad open on a 44KB file, then coming back a day later to find out that it was using 100% of your CPU. It's absolutely bizarre - I've heard of memory leaks, but I've never seen cycle leaks before. Of course killing the process solved the problem (and dropped the load averages to near-zero), but still... how does this happen?!

(Why yes, the current working directory is called "solaris poo". How observant of you).

[waynehoskins]

I like that the machine name is bender.

At work we got four laptops at Christmastime. Accordingly, we named them john, paul, george, and ringo.

nano foo using 100% CPU. Weird. Perhaps that's why we should use vi, or even ed?

[Lucas]

Bender always is a trouble maker.

[cjlowe]

I use vi. It's my colleague who insists on nano.

[Smob]

Looks like he may of suspended nano and it continued to poll for input. How did he exit nano?

[cjlowe]

I'm not sure. But I "exited" it for him with a friendly number nine