On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> In my /proc directory I have a bunch of files and they are nearly all
> '0' bit except one; and it is LARGE. Here is what I see (in part)..
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 08:36 interrupts
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 08:36 ioports
> -r-------- 1 root root 134221824 Aug 24 07:55 kcore
> -r-------- 1 root root 0 Aug 23 22:15 kmsg
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 08:36 ksyms
>
> Kcore is over 134 megs large, and it really does occupy this much
> space. Does this appear normal. Why is this file so large? How do I
> reduce it or kill it? I tried booting things up with rescue disks and
> then deleted that file. I then rebooted normally and it was back. It
> just seems odd to have such a large file there which I never noticed
> before. And of course I would like to recover that drive space.
>
First off, the /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem -- in other words,
it takes up NO space. Secondly, the kcore file is not a file. It is the
exact contents of your RAM chips.
Therefore, there is no disk space to recover. The kernel uses this "file"
to access memory... think of it as a hard link to RAM.
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