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. > [...] > 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; that 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. -- Bruce Cran
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