top dies and consumes cpu

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I can kill it with 9 no problem. Haven't tried 15.
> 	top -v
> 	top: Unknown argument `v'
> 	usage: top -bcisqS -d delay -p pid -n iterations
>
>  	strings `which top` | grep -i version
> 	procps version 2.0.6
>
> 	strings `which top` | sed -n "/[0-9]*\./p"
> 	Proc-Top Revision 1.2
>
> 	uname -a
> 	Linux  2.4.5-win4lin #3 Wed Jul 4 16:01:48 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

that kernel isn't doing you any favors.  loaded with bugs, instabilities
and other not so friendly items.  why not join us in he year 2002, and run
something about 2.4.1x?

>
>
> I run top without options.
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:30:22PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 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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