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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# 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*
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du -hs /proc/
du: `/proc/865/fd/4': No such file or directory
1.0k /proc
and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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
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