UNIX PC User Agent weirdness?

[Larry Weber]

In article <270 at icus.UUCP> lenny at icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>Strange thing happened a while ago, I spawned a "user agent (ua)" process
>to do some work.  I returned to the window with my shell, and the user
>agent stayed idle.  About 5 minutes later I noticed the machine running
>VERY SLOW.... then I did a ps and the ua process had 30 seconds of CPU
>time and it was gaining fast...  I killed the process and the machine
>returned back to normal speed.  Why did this happen?

There is a bug in UA. When it does not have control of the current window,
it calls wait() waiting for a window signal. This is not a very smart thing
to do when you have no child processes. 

	Larry Weber
	mtunb!law