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From: hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd-0.1 + pk-0.2.4: top-3.2 problems
Date: 1 Oct 1993 13:07:13 +0100
Organization: Nosimals & Co.
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Message-ID: <28h6hvINN2ph@flinx.RoBIN.de>
References: <CE2szt.q5@luva.stgt.sub.org>
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migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) writes:
>Hi,
>compiling top-3.2 (w/o any error message) was straight
>forward, but...
>after invoking top all seems ok, for 5 seconds; then after the
>first screen refreh all but the header "vanishes" (no processes
>are displayed any more).
>Any clue?
Simple. :)
Look in machine/m_386bsd.c and uncomment the following:
>/* #define PATCHED_KVM /* YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED THIS DEFINED! */
> /* define this if you have a kvm.c */
> /* that has been patched not to freshly */
> /* alloc an array of procs each time */
> /* kvm_getprocs is called, but to do a */
> /* realloc when the no. of processes inc. */
That solved the problem for me when I was running 386bsd-pk0.2.4
Ciao,
Hannes
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