Hi, tye -- Unfortunately we couldn't make head or tail of your chatbox tip, "I just disabled the "compatability test", tim (FreeBSD is certainly compatible even though it fails that test)".

We're running 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd on FreeBSD 4.9, and mytop-1.4 from freebsd ports. We tried ReadKey-2.21 and ReadKey-2.30, but runing mytop uses loads of system cpu:

PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU CPU COMMAND
12587 diamondd  65  10  5660K  4608K CPU0   0   0:13 96.87%           
+  46.34% perl
CPU states:  0.0% user,  3.5% nice, 46.5% system,  0.6%             in
+terrupt, 49.4% idle

ktrace just shows
12587 perl     CALL  read(0,0x814e000,0x1000)
12587 perl     RET   read -1 errno 35 Resource temporarily  unavailabl
+e
12587 perl     CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbff9d0,0)
12587 perl     RET   gettimeofday 0
12587 perl     CALL  read(0,0x814e000,0x1000)
12587 perl     RET   read -1 errno 35 Resource temporarily unavailable
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Google found this post, but hasn't given us any clues to the patch. If you'd be willing to share it, and allow us (on your behalf, of course) to add it to a patch submitted to update /usr/ports/devel/p5-Term-ReadKey from 2.21, we'd really appreciate it.

I've you'd like to contact me via email I can be reached at tim.hunter atsign eircom dot net. Thanks!