Re: kcore eating my disk space
David Gardiner <daveg@sonartech.com.au> writes:
> what is /proc/kcore and why is it eating up my disk space?????
> i.e.
> 262573 -r-------- 1 root root 268349440 Oct 16 08:59 kcore
> and a couple of minutes later
> 0 -r-------- 1 root root 320598016 Oct 16 09:03 kcore
> ^ ^
> | |
> and why is it's size 0 blks and also have a size of 320598016 bytes
> i'm running with kernel 2.4.17
>
> Yeah the obvious answer from it's name is it's a kernel core dump, but
> thats just a guess! a real explanation would be good and how do I get
> rid of it would be better.
The `files' below /proc are not real files. They are a file oriented
interface to information that lives in your running kernel. I would
think kcore gives (read-only) access to the memory currently used.
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