top: Arithmetic exception

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Mon Nov 24 15:06:54 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:50:02PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> > 
> > While watching some processes on pluto2 top dumped core.
> > Dunno, if this is a known problem:
> 
> I know about it. I haven't tried to analyze it. If you notice that
> top dumps core with a FP exception, wait a while (couple of minutes)
> and it should be gone again.

Oops. :-(

That might explain why "ps -auxww" doesn't work sometimes then.

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