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This is a piece of my `top' output. Look at PID 1798. It's eating all CPU.

12:12am  up  3:52,  8 users,  load average: 2.75, 2.33, 1.66
51 processes: 48 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 14.9% user,  0.0% nice, 85.9% system,  0.0% idle
Mem:  15040K av, 14776K used,   264K free,  5612K shrd,  2152 buff
Swap: 16380K av,  1536K used, 14844K free

  PID USER     PRI  NI SIZE  RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
 1798 root      20   0   48  180  276 R    84.4  1.1177:20 login -h na1tty0b.ne
 4373 root      18   0  108  320  316 R    12.0  2.1  0:00 top
 4286 news       2   0  313  472  324 D     2.5  3.1  0:31 relaynews -r -n -o 6
 4020 info       2   0 2940 2960  632 S     1.0 19.6  0:25 /usr/local/bin/tin -

Now look at the output of the `w' command:

 12:15am  up  3:55,  8 users,  load average: 3.28, 2.69, 1.91

raarts   tty3     10:48pm                      -
root     tty4     12:11am                      -
info     ttyS1    12:11am                      -
Sbjorn   ttyS3    11:03pm  1:12                -
Skleinja ttyS9    12:01am    14                -
info     ttyS10   11:42pm                      -
Smannees ttyS0    11:33pm    42                -
drpepper ttyp1     8:44pm  3:20                -

See this last line? It's* around, but user drpepper disconnected
a long time ago. He had a SLIP connection with this host, and telnet'ed
into it.

I get this behaviour lots of times.
Does anybody know why? I've seen this with every kernel I used so far.

Thanks for any help,
Ron Arts

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