From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 15 22:56:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1373937B503 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13l3GH-000PtC-00; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:56:37 -0700 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:56:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Wyness Casama Cc: Steve Coltrin , stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: procfs: out of memory! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Wyness Casama wrote: > 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... I'm > not too sure why, but it's preventimg me from even running 'top' or > anything. procfs is always full because it is dynamically allocated as needed. It doesn't contain any real files, just a mapping of some kernel tables into a filesystem. Perhaps you thinking about the size of the process table? Or perhaps, you rebuilt a new kernel without rebuilding the rest of the world so kernel intimate applications no longer understand kernel memory structures and complain about various "proc" errors? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message