Re: rebuilding top seems to take forever.

2004-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:33:53AM -0800, Richard Schilling wrote: I'm rebuilding top. What command do you use to build top? Judging on the contents of /usr/src/contrib/top, the BSD build of top may be slightly different that what's described in the INSTALL and README files. When I run

Re: perl malloc slow?

2004-01-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:11:09PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: One of the assumptions I made ten years ago, was that we would expose more of the possible VM gymnastics to userland and in particular it was my expectation that it would be cheap for a process to do some sort of page-flipping or

Should bad hardware cause a kernel panic?

2004-01-08 Thread Phil Kernick
This is a serious question and not intended as a troll. I have a dying IDE hard drive that I want to try and recover some file from - the problem is that with it connected to my box, both FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE and 5.2-RC2 kernel panic. This can be reliably duplicated by booting the machine with

creation of /usr/include/sys (was: rebuilding top seems to take forever)

2004-01-08 Thread Richard Schilling
Thank you all very much for pointing out what was wrong. It did lead to another question. I solved the problem and got top working again when I finally erased /usr/include/sys and copied /usr/src/sys/sys to /usr/include/sys (after running cvsup on the source tree of course). I thought `cd