[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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