Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
If I remember correctly procfs is off by default for security reasons. > Would an unmounted /proc make the system run slower since > proc files allow for examination of the operation of the running > processes? procfs is for user land applications, the kernel obviously has other means to examine running processes. I doubt that mounting procfs (without using it) has any measurable effect on the system's performance, but if it does, I would assume that it decreases performance rather than increasing it. Fabian
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