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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: top-3.2 memory leak (Re: m_*bsd.c for top 3.0?)
Date: 26 Oct 1993 14:27:47 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <2aj272$lnv@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au>,
Terry Dwyer netbsd08 619 491 5161 <tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> wrote:
>Wolfram Schneider (wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
>
>{other stuff deleted}
>
>: I have no problems with top-3.2. I use the orginal top and a patch for
>: swap usage.
>
>: Memory:  Free: 180K  Act: 1196K  Inact: 220K  Wired: 1268K  Swap: 3344K
>:                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^

	On the topic of Top problems:

	Whenever I am compiling XFree86, and I start to run top, it seg
	faults, especially if I hit space a few times to do a non-default
	refresh....

	It seems as though when there are a lot of processes changing
	rapidly, something breaks.

	I'll be looking into it more later this week.


							Marc 'em.

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