Subject: Re: UVM and top
To: Timothy Coltman <timothy.coltman@unn.ac.uk>
From: David Forbes <dmf20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/16/1998 10:19:15
> 1. top doesn't work. It complains about something called _cnt when doing
> a _kvm_read (or similar, anyway, it won't work). I've rebuilt the kvm.db
> file using kvm_mkdb and it doesn't make the slightest difference. I've
> noticed that top is in /usr/local/bin and the snapshots don't include
> (AFAIK) this directory. Is this the problem? Can I fix top by just
> recompiling it again, and if so, will it compile properly? (I've tried to
> compile top and xosview (which I think includes bits of top) and they
> don't work).
Have you been compiling with the -DUVM switch? It seemed to fix the
problem for me. (BTW, is there an easy way to have this switch on
properly?)
> 2. I get a lot more kernel panics, notably when I change virtual
> consoles: this morning, I was compiling the KDE games package and
Well, I've found that the system seems to be more stable as a whole
(particularly the X-server - thanks everyone!), although xterms disappear
and leaving no trace, but a bash.core where they once were... I don't
know if these are related?
Have fun,
David.