Re: Strange ftpd log message

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

root%whooppee.com@localhost wrote:

> I'm regularly getting messages similar to the following in by ftpd log 
> (/var/log/xferlog):
> 
>       Aug 25 10:00:34 quicky ftpd[29069]: -1.998u 0.017s 0+0io 0pf+0w
> 
> Yep, it's reporting _negative_ user-mode usage!
> 
> It doesn't happen all the time, but it is frequent, and almost always 
> it's in the same order of magnitude (ie, about -2 seconds).
> 
> Any clue?

ttcp(1) (from pkgsrc) also shows the similar values on UP i386:
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% ttcp -rs
ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001  tcp
ttcp-r: socket
ttcp-r: accept from 192.168.20.20
ttcp-r: 16777216 bytes in 1.81 real seconds = 9043.32 KB/sec +++
ttcp-r: 11550 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.16, calls/sec = 6375.14
ttcp-r: -1.9user 0.0sys 0:01real 2% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 11543+0csw
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so maybe it isn't ftpd(8) specific.

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Izumi Tsutsui