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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: trouble with top
Date: 19 Jun 1996 17:58:56 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4q9f50$1jc@helena.MT.net>
References: <31C67F88.1A513FCC@unix.sri.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

[ E-mailed to author as well ]

In article <31C67F88.1A513FCC@unix.sri.com>,
Scott Banachowski  <scottb@unix.sri.com> wrote:
>When I run the utility 'top,' it displays a bunch of processes that have
>mumbo jumbo in all the fields, as if it is unable to resolve any
>information such as the name, size, or even pid of the processes.

This is expected behavior if your kernel changed but top wasn't
recompiled. You need to re-compile and re-install libkvm from scratch,
and then re-compile and re-install top.

You don't see this on other machines because you don't upgrade the kernels
that often. :)



Nate
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