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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Top causes Segmentation Fault? Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:09:06 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <328E2D72.2AC7@www.play-hookey.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961113130602.796A-100000@jimbob.cococo.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) To: Charlie ROOT <root@jimbob.cococo.net> Charlie ROOT wrote: > > Hey all, > I have just started using FreeBSD, but I am having an intermittent > problem when I try to run the program top, it runs fine for the most part, > but last night, it caused a segmentation fault everytime I tried to run > it, I rebooted and now everything is OK, looking at the messages in the > /var/log directory, it reported exiting with Signal 11. I read in the FAQ > that this can usually be attributed to a hardware problem. Does anyone > know of any problems with the top program, or do I probably have a memory > problem? > If anybody replies to this could you please cc: to > kelley@cococo.net, my newsfeed is rather erratic at the moment. > [CC sent] I've never had trouble running top on 2.1R with 32 or 36 MB RAM. I'd look for a memory problem first, either in main RAM or (possibly) in cache RAM. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |