David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space????? > i.e. > 262573 -r-------- 1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore > and a couple of minutes later > 0 -r-------- 1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 09:03 kcore > ^ ^ > | | > and why is it's size 0 blks and also have a size of 320598016 bytes > i'm running with kernel 2.4.17 > > Yeah the obvious answer from it's name is it's a kernel core dump, but > thats just a guess! a real explanation would be good and how do I get > rid of it would be better.
The `files' below /proc are not real files. They are a file oriented interface to information that lives in your running kernel. I would think kcore gives (read-only) access to the memory currently used. -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 LPIC-2 -- I hack, therefore I am -- BOFH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
