[OpenWrt-Users] ps and top say "Segmentation fault"

[Harald Schiöberg]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have a kamikaze (compiled from the svn trunk a few days ago.
> Uses kernel 2.6.23) running on a wrtsl54gs.  Overall it works OK, but
> every once in a while, it gets into a state where `ps' and `top' do not
> work and just segfault (after printing the first line header).

2.6 kernels have some bugs in cache-handling on the broadcom CPUs, as
the cache on this CPUs is not 100% mips compliant. This results in
occasional segfaults. It is not an OpenWRT specific problem but a know
issue with the kernel on that platform.

The only way around is using 2.4.

	Harald