From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 2:35:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCC537B503 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from xor.obsecurity.org ([64.165.226.103]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G8D00BN6UKZLC@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:31:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by xor.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 43B1766CBE; Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:34:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:34:27 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Weird kernel problem In-reply-to: ; from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:03:42AM +0000 To: Mark Powell Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010207023427.A23730@mollari.cthul.hu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20010207015642.A23061@mollari.cthul.hu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:03:42AM +0000, Mark Powell wrote: > 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? Most likely explanation is that your userland/kernel are not in fact in sync, and kldstat is reading garbage instead of the actual stats (similarly for the other problems). Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6gSSyWry0BWjoQKURAsosAKDpnnlnKCOQBP1OAPhV+J1j5Xt3mACfYgh4 kEag/c9Ka37jRRVEbIqdcNE= =9eGE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message