Re: Sun Solaris /proc Directory

On 26 Apr 2006 05:06:52 -0700, dhaya.snidhi@xxxxxxxxx <
dhaya.snidhi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I find in the /proc directory in our Sun Solaris Box lot of folders
starting with a number.
dr-x--x--x 5 informix informix 736 Apr 24 14:49 601
( I see around 72 directories with different numbers)

Under each of the folder I see the following files :-
total 881143
-rw------- 1 informix informix 451043328 Apr 24 14:49 as
-r-------- 1 informix informix 152 Apr 24 14:49 auxv
-r-------- 1 informix informix 32 Apr 24 14:49 cred
--w------- 1 informix informix 0 Apr 24 14:49 ctl
lr-x------ 1 informix informix 0 Apr 24 14:49 cwd ->
dr-x------ 2 informix informix 8208 Apr 24 14:49 fd
-r--r--r-- 1 informix informix 120 Apr 24 14:49 lpsinfo
-r-------- 1 informix informix 912 Apr 24 14:49 lstatus
-r--r--r-- 1 informix informix 536 Apr 24 14:49 lusage
dr-xr-xr-x 3 informix informix 48 Apr 24 14:49 lwp
-r-------- 1 informix informix 5856 Apr 24 14:49 map
dr-x------ 2 informix informix 1056 Apr 24 14:49 object
-r-------- 1 informix informix 61184 Apr 24 14:49 pagedata
-r--r--r-- 1 informix informix 336 Apr 24 14:49 psinfo
-r-------- 1 informix informix 5856 Apr 24 14:49 rmap
lr-x------ 1 informix informix 0 Apr 24 14:49 root ->
-r-------- 1 informix informix 1472 Apr 24 14:49 sigact
-r-------- 1 informix informix 1232 Apr 24 14:49 status
-r--r--r-- 1 informix informix 256 Apr 24 14:49 usage
-r-------- 1 informix informix 0 Apr 24 14:49 watch
-r-------- 1 informix informix 9272 Apr 24 14:49 xmap

This consumes a lot of space in our file system.


No it cannot take any space. /proc is just a virtual filesystem, all the
files listed above are used for process control. DO NOT TOUCH THEM.

What are these files
and can we move these files to a different disk or send then to null
device.


nope, unless you want to crash your system

Dhaya

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