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Subject: Re: problem with top?
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:00:09 -0800
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> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:01:32PM -0500, Jason Morgan wrote:
> > What does this mean?
> >
> > $ top
> > kvm_open: proc size mismatch (41340 total, 1056 chunks)
> > top: Out of memory.
> >
> > $ ps aux | more
> > ps: proc size mismatch (41340 total, 1056 chunks)
> >
> >
> > This came up right after installing the GIMP port (gimp1 in ports). I
> > noticed some slight slow down in the system, so I thought I would take a
> > look at what's going on. Now everything seems to be running fine, but I
> > still can't use top or ps.
> >
> > Jason

Not sure how the GIMP port would have caused this... but I've had this same problem when mixing newly built kernels with old
binaries.  Read the Makefile in /usr/src.  Sounds like you need to:

# cd /usr/src
# make installworld


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