From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 03:23:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA12819 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 03:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA12799 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 03:23:56 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.2/1.0/WV) id GAA16145; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:19:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA18578; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 12:19:08 +0200 Message-Id: <9609061019.AA18578@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: "Yegor D. Sinelnikov" Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from "Yegor D. Sinelnikov" of Fri, 06 Sep 96 04:57:37 -0000. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: /proc file system is full Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Sep 96 12:19:07 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk yegor@grn4.recyclenet.com writes: > > Please give me a tip how to deel with /proc filesystem when it is full. > df reports 100% and there are messages in log files regarding that > problem. It happened when I tryed to pull into vi a huge file and as a > result I had /var and /proc filled. I cleaned /var but what should I do > with /proc since it is not realy a file system. > /proc is always full. It's not a real filesystem, but rather provides a view of the processes currently running on the system. It grows and shrinks as processes start and stop. Don't worry about /proc. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org