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- From: scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
- Subject: Re: sysadmin
- In-Reply-To: cheekin@flash.swl.spec.ptg.sony.co.jp's message of 1 Sep 92 09: 34:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <SCOTTH.92Sep1095858@hoshi.corp.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
- References: <9209010926.AA05950@flash.swl.spec.ptg.sony.co.jp>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:58:58 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <9209010926.AA05950@flash.swl.spec.ptg.sony.co.jp>, cheekin@flash.swl.spec.ptg.sony.co.jp (Tang Chee Kin) writes:
- cheekin> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
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- cheekin> hi.. I got files under dir /debug which keeps increasing
- cheekin> and I could not clear it off. Anyone knows what are those
- cheekin> files for ? Those files have filenames of just 5 digit
- cheekin> numbers and they are big(>100k). I need some tips to handle
- cheekin> this clearing of the /debug dir ? Thanks in advance.
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- The directory /debug is not a real file system. It is a mapping of
- physical_memory+swap_space into file system semantics. The "files" are
- processes, and the 5-digit filenames are the process IDs. /debug is
- used primarily by debuggers. See `man debug` or `man dbg`. This oughta
- be in the FAQ if it isn't.
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