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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Problems with ps and top
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Joel Sutton wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am having problems with ps and top (and other similiar utils). 
> For example:
> 
> solsbury-hill$ ps
> ps: proc size mismatch (11856 total, 620 chunks)
> 
> solsbury-hill$ top
> kvm_open: proc size mismatch (41184 total, 620 chunks)
> top: Out of memory.

your ps and top are out of date from your kernel, or the kernel structures
have been modifed.

> This started to happen recently when I re-built my kernel. I recently 
> tried to install gcc 2.7.2.1 but I couldn't get things going 
> properly. Perhaps I've broken something (more than likely I think). 

if you need gcc 2.7.*, upgrade to 2.2-GAMMA (or shortly, -RELEASE).  We
did the hard work for you. :)  In the meantime, either your kernel source
is broke or you upgraded your kernel source without updating the binaries.
Try fetching ps from the Live Filesystem CD and rebuilding TOP, and/or
reinstalling the kernel source (dists/src/ssys.*).

Initial thoughts, at least.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major