Bug 29553

FreeBSD 4.4 PRERELEASE has the serious problem with default editor, ee.  Easy Editor fails to terminate upon termination and CPU usage rises to 97%  burning up the system at serious temperature!  Running Easy Editor is a big risk in trashing one's computer, especially CPU's with not so good heat sinking.

Fix: 

The only way to stop this ee from heating up your CPU is to run gnome-terminal again, sign on as root and use kill -KILL "PID for ee" to kill the ee.
How-To-Repeat: XFree86 Version I'm using = 4.1
Desktop = XFCE 3.8.6 with xft enabled
Terminal = gnome-terminal

To repeat the problem, do this:

step 1) Open two gnome-terminals. (I think any terminal will do.  But, not sure!)
step 2) With one of the gnome-terminal, run "top"

step 3) Now, using the other gnome-terminal, run "ee"

step 4) Now, terminate "ee" by closing the gnome-terminal directly, not by logging out of ee.  It is important that you terminate the gnome-terminal directly while ee running within the terminal to see the effect!

step 5) Now see the CPU usage display from TOP running on other gnome-terminal.  You'll note that ee is still running and it's CPU usage is rising out of control, heating up the system and making everything run slow!