/debug size
D. Christopher Dunlap
dunlap at bigboote.csd.sgi.com
Sat Jul 15 03:10:08 AEST 1989
In article <8907121537.AA02390 at castor.wustl.edu>, lewis at CASTOR.WUSTL.EDU (Lewis Yuchan) writes:
> Is there any way to reduce the size of /debug, as it acts like it takes
> up 50Mb on our system? Is this a wise thing to do? Thanks.
>
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> lewis at castor.wustl.edu "The blonde spat at me and threw
> Lewis Yuchan Geer herself on my leg and tried to bite
The "/debug" filesystem doesn't take up any space. You can look at it
as a sort of logical construct that acts as a window into the virtual
memory space. It's size is the combination of Real User memory space
and Swap Space. (So I guess reducing swapspace would make /debug
smaller, but that's usually not a good idea. Most people want to
INCREASE swapsace.)
The Files shown are actually the processes that are runnning. Things
like debugers use /debug as a way to get at running processes in a
more elegant and reasonable way.
I think there was a more lucid discussion of how all this works a
while back in this newsgroup.
chris
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