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SubjectRe: question (/proc)

/proc is a virtual filesystem.. it doesn't exist.. so don't worry about the
size of the files it holds.. 'man proc' is a good start.

At 12:57 PM 7/17/98 -0500, rcooper@crstexas.com wrote:
>Hi.
>
> First I would like to apologize for using this list to post my
>question, but after attempting to find the answer to this question in
>other news groups, it has to date been ignored.
>
>Im trying to find information on the /proc/kcore file. I have noticed on
>all my Linux boxes, the size of this file is always the same size of
>installed system memory. So on one particular box with 128 meg of memory,
>the size of this file is 134221824 bytes. My question is what is this
>file used for and more importantly why is this file so large? This seems
>to be a waste of diskspace. Am I wrong in assuming this file has
>something to do with the kernel? Can this file be shrunk in size to
>preserve disk space? I admit total ignorance, but Im willing to learn
>and after all we all have to start someplace right? Again my apologies go
>to the list for this off topic message, but it seems more on topic than
>some messages Ive seen in here such as the KDE issue. Thanks in advance
>for any knowledge you are willing to share with someone eager to learn.
>
>Ron
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