Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-3
Severity: normal

If you set the terminal size to be less than the number of cpus
then it will dump core after displaying the cpu states.

this was discovered on a 32 core box.

top - 09:26:39 up 3 days, 23:27,  8 users,  load average: 7.22, 7.61,
7.92
Tasks: 727 total,   7 running, 720 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  1.0%us, 14.6%sy, 11.2%ni, 36.0%id, 35.2%wa,  0.4%hi,  1.6%si, 0.0%st
....
Cpu31 :  0.0%us,  1.2%sy,  6.6%ni, 92.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem:  528927776k total, 367325912k used, 161601864k free,      332k buffers
Swap:  4024240k total,      328k used,  4023912k free, 270010116k cached

Segmentation fault

However with a smaller window it can be seen on a 8 core machine


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.19-lustre-1.6.7.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5            5.5-5             Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- no debconf information


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