I made a startling discovery when using strace to
trouble-shoot a different problem on a freeBSD5.4 system that has
been running since last October. Both it and another new 5.4
system had a /proc mount point but no process files. The mount
point had the May 5 date from 2005 as do most files from that
distribution.
I mounted /proc the way it is done in fstab for 4.x systems
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
and there were all the process directories. The only reason I
had done this was because strace won't work without /proc.
Nothing else had seemed wrong and there hadn't been any
compelling reason to look at /proc until now.
Would an unmounted /proc make the system run slower since
proc files allow for examination of the operation of the running
processes? So basically, I have fixed the problem if it really
was one in the first place.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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