From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 2: 4:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pan.salford.ac.uk (pan.salford.ac.uk [146.87.255.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDE0137B69F for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:04:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31847 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2001 10:03:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 31841 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2001 10:03:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO plato.salford.ac.uk) (146.87.255.76) by pan.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 7 Feb 2001 10:03:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 55757 invoked by uid 141); 7 Feb 2001 10:03:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Feb 2001 10:03:42 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:03:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird kernel problem In-Reply-To: <20010207015642.A23061@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:48:26AM +0000, Mark Powell wrote: > > Hi, > > Had a machine on which top hasn't been working for a while. I thought > > maybe I'd not rebuilt the system properly, so I brought it and another > > machine up to date with 4.2S yesterday. Did make world on both and rebuilt > > their kernels, both from the same config file. They should both be the > > same after that, right? > > Now both are rebooted top still fails with "top: nlist > > failed". Strangely, in memory the kernel is rather large: > > See the FAQ about this question. I thought I was aware of the usual cause of this problem; userland & kernel out of sync; but as I explained I've rebuilt the two systems and checked that both have the same kernel, same top command, same shared libraries. So it must be the boot loader then? Why would this make the kernel appear to take up so much memory on just the one system? Cheers. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Academic Information Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message