Re: [PLUG] What is /proc/kcore

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>]

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 06:38  PM, Sijian Zhou wrote:

> I find I have a 200M+ /proc/kcore file in my RedHat
> 7.3. What is it? It is read-only and I can't change
> it's mod and delete it. How to reduce it's size?

Files in /proc do not actually consume disk space.

/proc/kcore is a file that maps to your RAM.  The only way to reduce 
the size of it would be to pull out some memory from your system, and 
that's probably not something you're interested in doing...

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