Kbase P23421: On SCO: why are the files within /proc growing large with Progress?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/16/2008 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
On SCO: why are the files within /proc growing large with Progress?
FIX:
Actually, not the files within proc are growing. The proc filesystem doesn't really contain processes, but it lets you interact with them. Almost all of the files in /proc are plain text, so you can access them form scripts and programs, as well as from the command line. Please, check your documentation --a proc (5) manual page. All /proc filesystems have one subdirectory for each process currently running on the system. Each of those process subdirectories is named for its PID. Thus, proc-files themselves are not growing large but pointing to large processes instead. E.g. '/proc/<pid>/as': these kind of processes contain all the memory segments in use, including the shared memory segments seen by "ipcs".