Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:09:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird kernel problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102071044510.55653-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010207023427.A23730@mollari.cthul.hu>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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). ?? Same kernel, same top command, same shared libraries used by the top command on both machines. I have updated both machines to 4.2S at the same time. I have done "make world" on both machines at the same time. I have rebuilt the kernel on both machines from the same config file. How can they be out of sync? I'm aware of the usual reasons why this problem occurs. However, this time I just can't seem to make it go away using the normal fixes. If you could point me at the section of the FAQ which specifies a method to fix this problem, that I've not already tried, I'd be more than happy. That is why I've posted he and detailed that I've already done what would be suggested in the FAQ. 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
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