Dhaya

I wouldn't touch them if I were you !! They are identifiers to
running processes and touching them will cause instability/loss
of data/machine crash/P45 (UK unemployment)/end of world in
any random order depending on the colour of your socks. If you
run df -k you will see the /proc filesystem takes up no disk space
so no need to worry.

Keith

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: dhaya.snidhi@gmail.com [mailto:dhaya.snidhi@gmail.com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:07 PM
-> To: informix-list@iiug.org
-> Subject: Sun Solaris /proc Directory
->
->
-> 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. What are these files
-> and can we move these files to a different disk or send then to null
-> device.
->
-> Dhaya
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No, it doesn't.

man -s 4 proc

No.

Hope this helps,

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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

nope, unless you want to crash your system

Dhaya

Eeeek, be sure to leave those alone.
"man proc" will show you tools that hit the /proc dir and give you an
idea of what it is used for.

--
Sam Gentsch