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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: ProcFS
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<<On Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:03 -0500 (EST), Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> said:

> What is Procfs, and do I care?  If I'm not examining the state of 
> processes by hand, does it offer any performance improvement?  Why should 
> I keep this configured into a kernel?

If you are not doing kernel development (or running -current, which
amounts to the same thing), there is no need to; the mount program
will automatically load it when you boot.

David has already explained why you need to have it mounted.

-GAWollman

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