Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 1997 02:50:32 -0800 | From | Ian Mahuron <> | Subject | Re: question (/proc) |
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/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 > > > > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------- >rcooper@crstexas.com >----------------------------------------------------------- > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html > > ____________________________________________________________________________
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