Bug 98945 - top segmentation faults under heavy load
Summary: top segmentation faults under heavy load
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: procps
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-07-10 18:53 UTC by gerry.morong
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-07-11 19:36:09 UTC
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Description gerry.morong 2003-07-10 18:53:35 UTC 
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Description of problem:
After upgrading from kernel from 2.4.18-24.7.smp to 2.4.20-18.7.smp, top will 
segmentation fault after several house on a loaded system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.0.7-12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load up 4 CPU system system to achieve about 4.0 load average
2.Run top with no options
3.Leave it running for several hours until a segmentation fault is reported.
    

Actual Results:  Top stops with a segmentation fault

Expected Results:  Top should continue running

Additional info:
Comment 1 gerry.morong 2003-07-11 19:36:09 UTC 
Looks like the newer procps-2.0.11-6 once rebuilt works great.
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