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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: top evokes floating point exception
Date: 4 Mar 1995 09:43:09 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote:
:
: Strangely systat can run forever (well to the next shutdown)
: without evoking this error but once top has crashed, systat
: too returns a floating point exception (I believe both pro-
: grams have a lot of common syscalls?).
I can get systat from the 950210 snapshot to crash with a floating
point exception after only a few minutes if I set it to update VM stats
once a second. Haven't seen top crash yet (but I haven't been running
it for several days straight).