Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:35:10 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: handy@condor.oscs.montana.edu (Brian Handy) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /proc Message-ID: <199412272135.WAA28416@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <199412272036.NAA25311@condor.oscs.montana.edu> from "Brian Handy" at Dec 27, 94 01:36:44 pm
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> 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
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