Subject: bin/1302: impossible output from sa(8).
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/01/1995 09:16:41
>Number: 1302
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: sa(8) produced impossibly high cpu figure for a user.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 31 21:20:01 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Simon J. Gerraty
>Organization:
Zen Programming...
>Release: NetBSD-current 950508
>Environment:
System: NetBSD zen.void.oz.au 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (ZEN) #3: Fri Jun 16 09:36:33 EST 1995 root@zen.void.oz.au:/f1/usr.src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ZEN i386
>Description:
End of month accounting involves running sa -ms this months results were:
root 106978 243.88cpu 2045426tio 0k*sec
daemon 29 0.16cpu 1101tio 0k*sec
news 24709 28.01cpu 110563tio 0k*sec
uucp 30480 45.52cpu 279359tio 0k*sec
nuucp 5 0.02cpu 195tio 0k*sec
sjg 188572 355.53cpu 1405802tio 0k*sec
bcd 44 0.23cpu 1287tio 0k*sec
aeg 658 983121.23cpu 30466tio 0k*sec
jng 247 4.45cpu 6074tio 0k*sec
nobody 1175 18.08cpu 134663tio 0k*sec
sjg is logged in all the time and apart from root accounts for most
activity on the system.
aeg was logged in for less than 2 days in the month.
>How-To-Repeat:
Not easy. This is the first time this has happened. The acct file
that sa processed is of course now gone...
I can provide the savacct file if that helps.
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: