On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, David Forbes wrote:

: > 1. top doesn't work. It complains about something called _cnt when doing 
: > a _kvm_read (or similar, anyway, it won't work). I've rebuilt the kvm.db 
: > file using kvm_mkdb and it doesn't make the slightest difference. I've 
: > noticed that top is in /usr/local/bin and the snapshots don't include 
: > (AFAIK) this directory. Is this the problem? Can I fix top by just 
: > recompiling it again, and if so, will it compile properly? (I've tried to 
: > compile top and xosview (which I think includes bits of top) and they 
: > don't work).
: 
: Have you been compiling with the -DUVM switch?  It seemed to fix the
: problem for me.  (BTW, is there an easy way to have this switch on
: properly?)

Yes.  Compile top from pkgsrc with UVM=1 in /etc/mk.conf.

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