[TriLUG] help? top dumping core

[Matthew Todd]

Hey everyone, random question:

I just killed an errant lynx process that had been running for a couple
of weeks on one of our servers.

Now, running top on that machine gives a floating point exception. [1]
I can still read the /proc filesystem just fine, and ps works as well.

Any thoughts as to what might be happening here? How might I go about
tracking this down? Redhat 7.1, kernel 2.4.2-smp (2 i686 processors).

Thanks,
Matthew


[1] Here's the output from top:
-------------------------------
 10:05am  up 411 days, 10:42,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.20
133 processes: 132 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 11.0% user, 88.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Floating point exception (core dumped)