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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:25:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird kernel problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102071022500.670-100000@veager.siteplus.net>
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).

Maybe this is too simple and obvious, but nothing has been mentioned
about Installworld and Mergemaster.

You have done this haven't you?

--
Jim Weeks   



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