RE: /proc

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From: Dave Cost (freevsd_at_comm.it)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 15:50:51 EST


> One of the things that I've noticed is that running du -s * in the vserver
> directory results in running vservers showing massive /proc directories. A
> 500mb vserver install seems to take up 1.5Gb.

The /proc directory does not take any space. It's a virtualization of some
kernel structures which includes the whole kernel memory, thus the big size.

Dave.


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