Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:15:04 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Ossei <ben@cahostnet.net> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, Sean Cull <Sean@blizzard.bc.tac.net>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: procfs full?? Message-ID: <20010208011504.50B4236F9@sitemail.everyone.net>
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It's pretty possible to fill out procfs b/c I noticed that mine was also at 100% filled. I haven't looked into it yet though. --- Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> > wrote: > >I don't know what that error message is, but the docs for procfs is >easy. Just try man procfs. It doesn't *need* to be mounted, but >certain programs like top and I believe ps use it. > Was downloading the only thing you were doing at the time? The exact >error message might be helpful. Look in /var/log/messages, and maybe >include a good chunk of that file back to the list. Procfs is the >memory file system and it would be strange for it to fill up. >Especially without heavy activity. It doesn't have anything to do with >disk space. Maybe you did fill up one of your partitions already. >What does the output of `df ` show? > > Tim > >On Wednesday February 07, 2001 18:53, Sean Cull wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place or not, or who's >> going to end up reading it, but here goes... > >You got the right place. This is a mailing list of FreeBSD users that >ask and answer questions about FreeBSD. > >> I installed FreeBSD the other day, and accepted the Auto-defaults for >> partitions (/usr, /var, etc.) and the installation went fine. I then >> proceeded to install a few ports, and those ran fine. But last night >> I was downloading something and then I was getting an error saying >> /proc was full. As much as I've looked, I can't find out exactly what >> procfs is... I'm wondering how I can be out of space when I have 10 >> gigs free on my drive. Is it a question of resizing my partition >> scheme? Or are they called slices in BSD? >> I'm not sure what other information you guys need to answer my >> question. Even pointing me to documentation on procfs would help. >> Does it NEED to be mounted? If so, why? If not, why not? >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. =) >> >> -Sean Cull >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- > >/""\ >\ / > X ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Say NO to HTML in email >/ \ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _____________________________________________________________ ========GET YOUR FREE E-MAIL============ http://freemail.cahostnet.net Web Hosting http://www.cahostnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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