bin/100585: [PATCH] top -s0 causes load excessive

Roberto Lima roberto at forbrazil.com.br
Wed Jul 19 23:20:18 UTC 2006


>Number:         100585
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] top -s0 causes load excessive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 19 23:20:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Roberto Lima
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1
>Organization:
ForBrazil
>Environment:
FreeBSD bsd.forbr.com.br 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Tue Jun 27 17:20:15 BRT 2006     root at bsd.forbr.com.br:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/ForBrazil  i386

>Description:
I see that my costumers have been used 'top -s0' too many times and this is overloading in my system.
>How-To-Repeat:
just use 'top -s0' and see the load average going up.
>Fix:
--- top.c.old   Wed Jul 19 19:49:23 2006
+++ top.c       Wed Jul 19 19:49:32 2006
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
                break;
 
              case 's':
-               if ((delay = atoi(optarg)) < 0 || (delay == 0 && getuid() != 0))
+               if ((delay = atoi(optarg)) < 1 || (delay == 0 && getuid() != 0))
                {
                    fprintf(stderr,
                        "%s: warning: seconds delay should be positive -- using default\n",
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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