From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 8 22:16:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17628 for current-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:16:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17621 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:16:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id BAA03226; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 01:16:40 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711090616.BAA03226@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: kernel memory errors? In-Reply-To: from Murray Stokely at "Nov 8, 97 09:35:19 pm" To: murray@cdrom.com (Murray Stokely) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 01:16:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Murray Stokely said: > I can't run 'top' or 'ps' since booting a new 3.0 kernel (cvsuped less > than 24hrs ago). The system seems to be working fine, in that I'm in > X and running Netscape now, but I get the following errors when I try > to run two very important utilities... > > [pimp] /home/murray: top > kvm_open: proc size mismatch (28552 total, 656 chunks) > top: Out of memory. > > [pimp] /home/murray: ps > ps: proc size mismatch (14608 total, 656 chunks) > In general, you cannot get by with just rebuilding a kernel. 1) Recompile/link/install libkvm 2) Recompile/link/install config 3) Recompile/install lkms 4) Recompile/link/install ps,w, and other processes that use lkm. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com