/proc/kcore is 131072.0 GB

Shodan · 2010-01-11 11:28:09

Hey

My /proc/kcore file is 131072.0 GB. I thought this is supposed to be the same size as the amount of RAM I have (4GB).

I recently had som problems when my root partition got full and the I updated with pacman causing a lot of problems (elf stuff and magic quotes and stuff).
Got all this fixed by reinstalling the apps that owned to *.so files, but I'm still curious as to why kcore is so large.

jdarnold · 2010-01-11 12:17:58

while most of the short answers about what /proc/kcore is say that it is a mapping of memory, I have seen a few places on the web that say it is actually the size of the maximum memory mapping of the system, so for my arch-64 system it is 128TB! Of course, it really isn't a "size", just a view.

chpln · 2010-01-11 12:29:56

The same on my system. I believe jdarnold is correct, unfortunately the proc man-page is yet another source which gives a misleading indication.

proc(5) wrote:

The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus 4KB.

wonder · 2010-01-11 12:36:06

/proc/ doesn't actually use any disk space

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs

quantumphaze · 2010-01-18 05:09:49

I have the same "problem" and it gets in the way when I want to find out what's eating my disk space. Is there a way to remove or hide it for utilities like Konqueror's file size view or the Gnome disk usage pie graph thing I forget the name of.

fsckd · 2010-01-18 05:17:40

chpln wrote:

The same on my system. I believe jdarnold is correct, unfortunately the proc man-page is yet another source which gives a misleading indication.
proc(5) wrote:
The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus 4KB.

It is the total length of physical memory on my system. I wonder, why the difference between 64bit and 32bit?

> ls -l /proc/kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 504M Jan 18 00:12 /proc/kcore

Pank · 2010-01-18 06:58:48

quantumphaze wrote:

I have the same "problem" and it gets in the way when I want to find out what's eating my disk space. Is there a way to remove or hide it for utilities like Konqueror's file size view or the Gnome disk usage pie graph thing I forget the name of.

I use ncdu. It seems too work nicely. Just

ncdu /

tomk · 2010-01-18 07:07:16

quantumphaze wrote:

I have the same "problem" and it gets in the way when I want to find out what's eating my disk space.

Use a tool that works correctly. du /proc shows that proc uses 0 disk space, as does ncdu suggested above.

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#1 2010-01-11 11:28:09

/proc/kcore is 131072.0 GB

#2 2010-01-11 12:17:58

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