Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Can any alpha guru please have a look at this:
> 
> theta# ./top
> Floating exception (core dumped)
> theta# gdb top top.core
> ...
> Core was generated by `top'.
> Program terminated with signal 8, Floating point exception.
> #0  0x120008860 in format_next_process () at machine.c:513
> 513         sprintf(fmt,
> 
> 

I looked into this a few weeks ago, before my time ran short.  What I found
was that the kernel value 'hz' on the Alpha returns zero, producing a
divide by zero error when formatting the output string.  That's where I
left it, cuz I know little about the kernel.  

+j

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