Re: /proc filesystem is +3gb, is this normal???

From: Scott Howard (scott_at_hunterlink.net.au)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: 27 Sep 2003 23:10:20 GMT

Rhugga <ccarson@echeeba.com> wrote:
>
> I have an Ultra 10, 1gb mem, running Solaris 9. It is running apache2,
> tomcat, postfix, and mysql.
>
> It is not hit very hard and the total number of processes is not that
> great. I looked in /proc and saw a lot of these entries:

Check the FAQ!

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/misc/solaris2faq.html#q5.61

5.61) What is /proc? Can I safely remove the large files there?

  Scott

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