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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au>
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Subject: Strange output from ps
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Hi,

I've seen this twice now, on 2.2-ALPHA (I'm about to upgrade to 2.2R)

Cron Daemon said:

> ps: kvm_getprocs: Cannot allocate memory

It is turning up in a cron job which does 'ps -ax'.
Machine is 32 MB RAM, 70MB available swap, 1.3MB free, 4 MB disk cache.
intel 486dx4-100.  There are about 60 processes running.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Danny