On Saturday 22 September 2001 23:52 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote: > Anyone know what the file '/proc/kcore' does? Sounds to me like a dump > of some kind. > > I've been tracking why my disk space keeps going up and found /proc/kcore > at a size of 815MB!!! And climbing. Tried to delete it but it won't > let me under normal conditions. (prob cuz KDE is running) Will kill KDE > and try to delete it but I must have a major problem somewhere. Yet KDE > is running fine. > > The file is binary so there's nothing I can deduce from that. Ahhh forget this bit of embarrassing tripe. I am going to deduce that kcore is anuther linux feechur that is a map into your memory as a filesystem. Neat trick. So it's really not a file at all and doesn't take up disk space. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/22/01 23:58 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "'LOVE' is nothing but 'SEX' mispelled." _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
