Why does vmstat terminate with signal 8, Arithmetic exception on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?
Issue
When running vmstat 1 for about 20 minutes it terminates with a signal 8 Arithmetic exception.
When a core dump is captured and analysed, a backtrace similar to the following is reported:
Thread 1 (process 15693):
#0 0x00000000004021f5 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at vmstat.c:255
Environment
- VMWare
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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