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Subject: Re: Force Memory Dump
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Don't top-post, please.

Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> writes:

>    I get this error when trying gcore what am I doing wrong?
>    # gcore 581
>    gcore: /proc/581/file: No such file or directory
>    # cd /proc
>    # ls -la
>    total 4
>    dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 May  8  2005 .
>    drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 Apr  3 17:03 ..

You need to mount a procfs(5).