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To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Strange output from ps 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen this twice now, on 2.2-ALPHA (I'm about to upgrade to 2.2R)
> 
> Cron Daemon said:
> 
> > ps: kvm_getprocs: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> It is turning up in a cron job which does 'ps -ax'.
> Machine is 32 MB RAM, 70MB available swap, 1.3MB free, 4 MB disk cache.
> intel 486dx4-100.  There are about 60 processes running.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Sounds like your ps is out of sync with your kernel.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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