Re: Is this deletable...

On Saturday, 16 June 2012 23:57 Dimitris Tzemos wrote:

> None of the files in /proc are really there--they're all, "pretend,"
> files made up by the kernel, to give you information about the system
> and don't take up any hard disk space.
> 
> /proc/kcore is like an "alias" for the memory in your computer. Its
> size is the same as the amount of RAM you have, and if you read it as
> a file, the kernel does memory reads.
> 

  Aha! Very good. Thanks for that, Dmitris.


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