From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 8:49:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE0737B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101E843E3B for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net) Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng0.kundenserver.de) by moutng3.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17WIxc-0004KZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:49:28 +0200 Received: from p508e469c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([80.142.70.156] helo=sschwarzer.net) by mrelayng0.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17WIxc-00016L-00; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:49:28 +0200 Message-ID: <3D3AD89E.3000104@sschwarzer.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:51:58 +0200 From: Stefan Schwarzer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020720 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: top(1) blocks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On one of our FreeBSD server invoking top(1) blocks (as if had entered cat instead of top). Something about the machine: purpurea# uname -a FreeBSD purpurea.rz.tu-clausthal.de 4.6-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p1 #4: Tue Jul 16 19:01:33 CEST 2002 root@purpurea.rz.tu-clausthal.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PURPUREA i386 (This is an AMD double processor system (AMD Athlon XP 1600+). SMP is activated in the kernel configuration. According to dmesg, the second CPU is enabled on boot.) The problem: purpurea# top ^C purpurea# Using batch mode doesn't work either: svss@purpurea:~$ top -b ^C svss@purpurea:~$ The top binary seems to be ok: svss@purpurea:~$ which top /usr/bin/top svss@purpurea:~$ ls -lF /usr/bin/top -r-xr-sr-x 1 root kmem 32872 Jul 3 20:06 /usr/bin/top* E. g. NIS (client), NFS (client), Apache and PostgreSQL (the server) seem to work well. Can anybody tell what the problem is? Should I give more information (and which)? Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message