top dies and consumes cpu

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Joel Hammer wrote:
>>From time to time, I find a top command has died and is eating up all my cpu
> cycles. Does anyone know why this would happen?

that's a new one to me.  is it dying, or just hanging, and chewing up 
the CPU?  can you kill the process, or does it become a zombie?  which 
version of top (top -v)?  which kernel version?  are you running top 
with any special options?

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