Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:37:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes in parentheses? Message-ID: <19990510123704.Z22791@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990509201007.9121B-100000@divine>; from Chris England on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:15:25PM -0700 References: <19990510121759.W22791@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.990509201007.9121B-100000@divine>
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On Sunday, 9 May 1999 at 20:15:25 -0700, Chris England wrote: >> Two possibilties: >> >> 1. They're swapped out. This is the usual reason. >> >> 2. Your ps(1) doesn't match your kernel. I think this is what you're >> seeing here, since your ps itself is shown like that, and you're >> missing things like CPU time. I'd guess you've upgraded your >> kernel or your userland, and not the other. > > I had a problem similar to this after doing a make world and > building a new kernel ( from the same source tree from RELENG_3 ). > Programs that used /proc were not functioning properly. I figured > something was out of sync, so I did make world again and built a new > kernel from the same source, with the same results. The following day, I > updated my source tree, tried again and it worked fine. I posted to > questions@ and got replies from others having the same problem. > > Do you know if there was something broken in the code then? > ( early March ). No, I don't know, but it's conceivable. In particular, you can always be unlucky when supping, and get a partial update. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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