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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Eric Chet <ec0@s1.GANet.NET>, current@freebsd.org
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Subject: -current and top-3.3
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> I made top-3.3 from the current/port collection, when I execute
> top I get an error:
> 
> top: cannot read swaplist: kvm_read: Bad address
> 
> Has anybody else seen this problem?  

I saw it after intensive swapping on freebsd.first.gmd.de.

$ perl -ne '$a=$_' </dev/zero
[waiting for out of memory]
$ top

>Any ideas on where I need to look to 
> fix this problem? 

Do you try other commands, which read swaplist? E.g.
$ swapinfo
$ pstat -T

Wolfram