Thanks Andrew, Olaf and Scott for your quick replys, The reason I noticed it was because my used disk space jump up to 100% and I started looking for what using it. du in the root directory gave
root@munchkin:/# du -hs * 2.6M bin 2.9M boot 4.0k cdrom 68k dev 9.4M etc 4.0k floppy 7.7G home 4.0k initrd 18M lib 16k lost+found 4.0k mnt du: `proc/580/fd/3': No such file or directory 257M proc and ls -las gave me, 262573 -r-------- 1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore and *now* root@munchkin:/# du -hs /proc/ du: `/proc/865/fd/4': No such file or directory 1.0k /proc and root@munchkin:/proc# ls -als kcore 0 -r-------- 1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 10:51 kcore and my disk space has dropped to it's previous level So if I trust du, df and ls in the /proc (which i probably shouldn't) directory why did it start using the disk? or show up as using disk space? ps: I have 256 M of ram and 320M is around the sum of my ram and the swap space thats being used so I assume it's the combined total of memory that the kernel is using. So I probably don't want to get rid of it do I :) just of my root partition if it was still there or appears in the future when we have our next blue moon. Dave Scott Barnes wrote: >On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:20:40 +1000 >David Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space????? >> >> > >It's not, it's a virtual file, it's actually the running kernel. > > > >>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 >> >> > >It's 0 blocks because it isn't actually on the disk, it's in memory. > > > >>Yeah the obvious answer from it's name is it's a kernel core dump, but >> >> >It's not a core *dump*, it's the actual core :) > > > >>thats just a guess! a real explanation would be good and how do I get >>rid of it would be better. >>Thanks, >>Dave >> >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
