[SunHELP] about /proc
Nicholas Dronen
sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Jul 16 10:50:17 CDT 2001
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:09:44PM +0800, Li John-a16118 wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I found that the output of "du -sk /proc" is bigger than the size of the partition which /proc located on. My OS is Solaris 2.6. My question is: How can I identify and remove the unuseful stuff from /proc without rebooting my box ?
>
/proc is an in-core filesystem. The files you see repsented
in the /proc directory don't "really" exist. They're just
file abstractions of process data.
Regards,
Nicholas
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