From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 16 2:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F03437B671 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 02:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9G9Mfs86479 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:22:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:22:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable 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: > >>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... I'm > not too sure why, but it's preventimg me from even running 'top' or > anything. > > the symptoms just seem to have started as soon as I installed a 3com 3905B > 10/100 NIC. I also have a 3Com 3905B-TX, and I also have a "full" procfs (and a "full" linprocfs). AFAIK, they've always been full. I can run "top" just fine. I submit that your kernel and your userland may be out of synch. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message