From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 27 13:35:07 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA22430 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 13:35:07 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA22421 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 21:35:00 GMT Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06428; Tue, 27 Dec 94 22:33:13 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (WAA28416); Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:35:10 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199412272135.WAA28416@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: /proc To: handy@condor.oscs.montana.edu (Brian Handy) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:35:10 +0059 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199412272036.NAA25311@condor.oscs.montana.edu> from "Brian Handy" at Dec 27, 94 01:36:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 709 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > What is the /proc directory for? I seem to be accumulating some files > there, but I don't know what for and it's beginning to fill up that > disk partition. Assuming /proc is the mounted proc filesystem the "files" are infos about processes. This is used for debugging processes and for getting statistics about processes. "w" and "ps" uses it. And it should not fill up the partition, if it does it, something is setup wrong on your machine. You will get some info about it with a "man procfs" :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe