Re: weird entries under netstat

["Adv. Systems Design" <asd_2000 yahoo com>]

Well, I am going to go back to the stock kernel, maybe
I messed with something...let's see what happens.

--- Fred Herman <fherman inferential com> wrote:
> "Adv. Systems Design" wrote:
> > 
> > Well, another box running RH4.2 doesnt act that
> > way...idle goes from 97% to 99%...the box running
> 6.0
> > goes from idle ~8% to ~98%. I know top is not
> going to
> > explain my tenet problems, but its curious that
> the
> > telnet will not die if I am running top (which
> leads
> > me to believe that it is pushing some processor
> hog
> > into lower status that causes the idle to jump
> up). I
> > know there was an unrelated K6-2 bug, (depending
> on
> > the stepping of your processor) but i wonder if
> there
> > is something related...
> 
> Just another guess, but maybe the periodic output
> from top over your
> telnet connection is keeping the connection open. 
> Whatever is timing
> out the telnet session would be looking at activity,
> and if top's output
> satisfies the activity criteria, it would keep the
> connection open.  To
> test this theory, try running netstat -ct   That
> will cause netstat to
> update each second and also only output the tcp info
> for a much shorter
> display.  See if that also keeps telnet alive.
> 
> Fred
> 
>  
> > 
> > --- Fred Herman <fherman inferential com> wrote:
> > > "Adv. Systems Design" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The problem I am having is that my machine's
> > > processor
> > > > is being cycled to death to the point where my
> > > telnet
> > > > sessions become dead (top reveals that there
> is 0%
> > > > idle, but 0.3% being used by system and 0.9%
> by
> > > user
> > > > SO where is the rest of the 99%?! After a few
> > > seconds,
> > > > top must background the process, because idle
> > > shoots
> > > > up to 98%. Funny thing is, if I keep top
> running,
> > > my
> > > > telnet connection never dies!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I normally see this when top starts.  After the
> > > first refresh, the idle
> > > per cent goes back up to 99%.  I believe this is
> top
> > > initially seeing
> > > itself running.  Only a guess.  It has nothing
> to do
> > > with telnet.
> > >
> > > Fred
> > >
> > >
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