From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 11:41:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amsmta03-svc.chello.nl (mail-out.chello.nl [213.46.240.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928F237B71E for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:41:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anera@dds.nl) Received: from vectra ([213.93.42.235]) by amsmta03-svc.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.03.02.00 201-232-124 license f747fce8063b429e7fcd66ee14ce8c58) with ESMTP id <20010330194125.WEUI23596.amsmta03-svc@vectra>; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:41:25 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:41:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Maarten van Schie X-X-Sender: To: Bob Cazzell Cc: Subject: Re: /Proc usage = 100%? In-Reply-To: <000601c0b949$1d9a5a60$4b1419ac@rezn8.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A snip from 'man procfs' shows: DESCRIPTION The process file system, or procfs, implements a view of the system pro- cess table inside the file system. It is normally mounted on /proc, and is required for the complete operation of programs such as ps(1) and w(1). There's little more in there, nothing to be deleted or changed, that's up to the kernel. Furthermore, as you see, /proc only takes 4KB space so I figure noone shouldn't worry about the space it takes unless running some ancient mainframe or anything similar. Maarten On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Bob Cazzell wrote: > Is this normal? If not, how do you know what can be deleted from /Proc? > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 198399 26159 156369 14% / > /dev/da0s1e 3629255 294446 3044469 9% /usr > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Thanks, > Bob > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message