Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:17:09 -0500 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system Message-ID: <20081219001709.GA32031@muon.cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080928054620.GA80250@k7.mavetju> References: <20080928054620.GA80250@k7.mavetju>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:46:20PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base > system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version. >=20 [...] > Please report any issues with it (compile time, run time) and a way > to reproduce it (if possible). Thanks for your help! > There's an overflow bug in format_k2 in 3.5b12 that means that top can corrupt the SIZE field of processes which allocate 2TB or more of memory; t= hat seems to be fixed in 3.8b1 but I've noticed that if a process allocates over 2TB then it doesn't show up at the top of the display when sorting by SIZE in 3.8b1; I suspect there must be another overflow somewhere. I'm sure it'll be a good few years before anyone actually hits this bug running real programs, but I don't know if it might affect other things. --=20 Bruce Cran --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklK6AUACgkQn4uvqcJsLfgJ6ACgoc4dDhvlkCIKiHk9T2sHQqNU KtQAnjzOoBU2IC8zb0rcBRQTY+Vw+Yn4 =YRP3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--
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