Bug 17321

Summary: top command reports 'out of memory'
Product: Base System Reporter: caruel <caruel>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description caruel 2000-03-11 18:10:00 UTC 
The top command reports :

caruel:~$ top
kvm_open: proc size mismatch (59508 total, 1040 chunks)
top: Out of memory.

How-To-Repeat: Type top !
Comment 1 bill fumerola freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-03-11 21:20:02 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Your kernel and your "world" need to be in sync for KVM operations to 
work. This is adequetly documented in the handbook.