Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:07:44 -0500 | From | "Todd R. Eigenschink" <> | Subject | Re: ps segfault |
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>On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Gerald Britton wrote: > >> we just noticed this "ps axf" causes a segmentation fault on 2.0.23 using >> the procps-1.01 ... > >Doesn't do that here. Same versions used.
Ditto, under "normal" circumstances. It does, however, seg fault when (it seems) there are "too many" processes running.
Normally, there are ~50 processes running. I've seen situations where the Postgres server has gone awry, connections have backed up, there have been more like 100 processes (load average of 38+ with heavy disk I/O and still fair response times!) and `ps axf' will die. I'm guessing there's a hardwired limit somewhere in the forest formatting (because `ps aux' is fine), but a quick glance at ps.c doesn't reveal anything.
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