From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 18:13:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25318 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25034 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA12754; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:42:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA11809; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:41:48 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981218124148.J486@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:41:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Donny Lee Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /proc References: <3679BAA7.B0C8B6DE@usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3679BAA7.B0C8B6DE@usa.net>; from Donny Lee on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 10:15:03AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 10:15:03 +0800, Donny Lee wrote: > Oleg Ogurok wrote: >>> What is /proc for? >>> becuase it's already full can I delete them ? >> No, you can't. It's always full. It has immage of all the processes >> running on your machine. Without it you couldn't even use the "ps" >> command. > > then is it located somewhere in a slice? can one mount it > in other place, asy a mfs? No, it's not on disk. It's a pseudo-file system, just an idea in the mind of the kernel. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message