On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> 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.


Snicker.  Snort.  Snicker.  Ya gotta admit, it does sound funny.

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