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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
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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

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