In the last episode (Jul 21), Stefan Schwarzer said:
> 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
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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
Hit ^T here instead of ^C. That will print a status line saying where
top is blocking in the kernel. Also try ktrace'ing it, hit ^C, and use
kdump to see what top was doing when you hit ^C.
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Dan Nelson
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