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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: xload
Date: 16 Mar 94 06:33:12 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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References: <1994Mar15.025212.14829@sun490.fdu.edu> <MYCROFT.94Mar15133318@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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In <MYCROFT.94Mar15133318@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:


>In article <1994Mar15.025212.14829@sun490.fdu.edu>
>brian@sun490.fdu.edu (Brian Domenick) writes:

>   I am running the march 5 NetBSD current binary distribution on my
>   486 pc. Xload from xFree86 has now stopped working.

>Can't really help you there.  Random utilities that grovel through
>/dev/kmem are prone to breaking.

If this is simply a problem of a kernel interface changing slightly, a
simple relink or recompile of the xload binary might straighten it
out.

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