garbled top display

[Eric J. Chet]

Hello
	I found it, I had a very old version of top in my path.

Thanks,

Eric

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, David Landgren wrote:

> Eric J. Chet wrote:
> [...]
> >>>	Just a sanity check.  I'm seeing a garbled display with top.  I
> >>>rebuild kernel and world a couple times, I even rm -rf /usr/include to
> >>>make sure I was up to date.  Anybody else seeing this?
> >>
> >>Define garbled.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>David
> >>
> >
> >
> > Sure ....
> >
> > Script started on Mon Jun 23 10:39:06 2003
> > bash-2.05a$ top
> > last pid:  3359;  load averages:  0.06,  0.02,  0.00 up 1+13:20:4210:39:09
> > 10 processes:  1 running
> > CPU states:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     % idle
> > Mem: 16M Active, 55M Inact, 26M Wired, 8748K Cache, 22M Buf, 15M Free
> > Swap: 256M Total, 52K Used, 256M Free
> >
> >   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> >     1 '++*00'* -22 -52     0K     0K ? -128    ???  0.15%  0.15% <>
> > 968972 root     -22 -52  3083M     0K ?    6    ???  0.00%  0.05% <>
> [... etc etc ...]
>
> wow.
>
> I've seen garbled top displays before, like the RES going -ve or things
> like that. But never anything like this. I am reminded of the scene in
> Poltergeist, where the couple get a paranormal expert into the house to
> take a look, and he natters on about how he saw a toy car roll across a
> room over the space of six hours... and then they open the door...
>
> It looks to me like your structs are out of whack, and so when top comes
> along to read an element of a struct, it's using the wrong offset from
> base, and hence printf (or whatever) renders garbage. I.e., as if
> different headers are used in compiling the kernel and the rest.
>
> Does ps give reasonable output? Are you sure you really cleaned out
> /usr/src before recompiling? Has the compiler been upgraded recently?
>
> David
>

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