Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:52:01 -0600 From: Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@code.omcl.org> To: "Wyness Casama" <wcasama@citytel.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procfs: out of memory! Message-ID: <200010160552.e9G5q1Q98267@code.omcl.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:49:19 PDT." <BDEDLBCJLIFHONOPCINBGEFFCBAA.wcasama@citytel.net>
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>>>I'm having a little trouble with my procfs... actually, it seems it's a >>>little too small (4k) for what I'm doing. Is it possible to resize the >>>procfs to say: 1mb+? >>procfs isn't an ordinary file system; it's a projection of system memory >into >>the file system hierarchy. You never actually put files in it. >Thanks for the info. :) I was thinking about the size of procfs (4k) I'm >trying to increase that memory space cause the procfs is always full... procfs _isn't a real file system_. The results of "df /proc" are meaningless. >I'm >not too sure why, but it's preventimg me from even running 'top' or >anything. The problem is certainly something else, probably... >the symptoms just seem to have started as soon as I installed a 3com 3905B >10/100 NIC. ...that. Try recompiling top, ps, and the various other programs that look at kernel memory; the layout of kernel data structures is compiled into them and changing kernel configuration tends to discombobulate them. >Any ideas on how I could alleviate this problem? would it be safe to simply >try to remove the files in there? I don't think you can remove the entries in /proc; if you could, it would not be a very good idea :) > --wgc -spc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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