Re: Howto remove /proc/kcore?

[Matthew Geier <matthew sleeper apana org au>]

> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Steve Frampton wrote:
> 
> > > -r--------   1 root     root     67117056 Mar  2 00:00 kcore
> > Wow, that's a rather large file, isn't it?  I can't blame you for wanting
> 
> Hmm.. I have just one like that myself.......
> Except for using som space (it is, isn't it?), what does it do?
> And, if I delete it, then it would probably get back there at the next
> (yes, I have some of them) Netscape crash?
> 
 I have a small chuckle every time this comes up...


 /proc is not a real file system. Nothing in there takes up disk space.
 You cant delete the files are they are not real files, but virtual files
representing some aspect of the system. (Often counters or other system
info).
 kcore is a representation of the system virtual memory, of course it is
huge, the virtual memory size is huge....

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