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To: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel memory errors?
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Murray Stokely wrote:
> 
> I can't run 'top' or 'ps' since booting a new 3.0 kernel (cvsuped less
> than 24hrs ago).  The system seems to be working fine, in that I'm in
> X and running Netscape now, but I get the following errors when I try
> to run two very important utilities...
> 
> [pimp] /home/murray: top
> kvm_open: proc size mismatch (28552 total, 656 chunks)
> top: Out of memory.
> 
> [pimp] /home/murray: ps
> ps: proc size mismatch (14608 total, 656 chunks)
> 
> Murray Stokely
I am probably running the same version with no problems.
I assume that you rebuilt the kernel and rebooted?
The only time I've seen this problem is when I forget to
reboot :-)

Ed