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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] /proc disk usage
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:59:13
Message-Id: 44393D09.5000904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] /proc disk usage by Ben Munat
1 Ben Munat wrote:
2 > I've been monitoring the disk usage (using du) of directories in / and
3 > have noticed that one day /proc will say 0 and the next day it'll say
4 > several hundred MB. Anyone know why this is? Shouldn't /proc -- being a
5 > pseudo file system -- always use no disk space?
6
7 It's not using any *actual* disk space. Proc is *completely* virtual. It never
8 touches the disk.
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