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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Top - what is it and do I need it? Message-ID: <2gsi51$6pa@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: 10 Jan 94 21:42:57 GMT Article-I.D.: pdq.2gsi51$6pa References: <CJBFJz.3L1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1994Jan10.184623.16915@news.csuohio.edu> Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1994Jan10.184623.16915@news.csuohio.edu>, Steve Ratliff <stever@csuohio.edu> wrote: > Be warned that the binary and source packages of top on >FreeBSD.cdrom.com currently have a rather substantial memory leak. > Top will grow in size about 30-40k every time that a new process >is started or exits. So don't run top for extended periods of time, >especially on a very busy system. Top will hang your system after it >gets to big. On my not very busy system, it locks the system up after >it has been running for about 24 hours. Most of these leaks have to do with a bug in the kvm library functions, which have been fixed in FreeBSD-current. There are other leaks in top, but they aren't as significant as the ones in the library and I believe one of the developers has them tracked down. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me