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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!psgrain!hippo!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ps -aux yields Floating exception Keywords: ps FP exception Floating Message-ID: <1992Sep19.084341.17632@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: 19 Sep 92 08:43:41 GMT References: <1992Sep13.171803.3954@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 20 In <1992Sep13.171803.3954@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >I recently installed a kvm.c patch (though I'm not sure if I installed >it completely and c orrect) - anyway, when I do a ps -aux I get >the header line of ps (CPU % etc..) and then in the next line a >Floating exception. Would this be related to a similar problem? On my 8Mb system, it is not unusual to see the CPU time produce a figure of the order of 10**300 for swapper (most often) and sometimes for other programs. This looks to me suspiciously like insufficient swap space, but I cannot find out how to increase the space. Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 22023 x 279 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd fx +27 461 25049 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa