909 mb kcore file in proc

rrodden111 · 07-23-2003, 03:41 PM

I partitioned very little for my linux distro (Mandrake 9.1) and I now need to clean out files. I found that in /proc/ there is a file called kcore described as program crash data. It is 909 mb, a large proportion of my partition. Is it safe to delete this file because I have no need for information reguarding program crashes. I have read from other posts that proc is in physical ram and cannot be deleted. I only have 768 mb of ram, so could this file be reducing my system performance?

fancypiper · 07-23-2003, 04:01 PM

/proc (it keeps track of running processes) is not a real filesystem and that will disappear when /proc is dismounted on shutdown/reboot.

You can safely delete core files if you don't de-bug or submit bug reports/

rrodden111 · 07-23-2003, 04:05 PM

It will not delete. I changed the permissions, but it says access denied and resets the permissions.

rrodden111 · 07-23-2003, 04:07 PM

thanks for the help.

Vlad_M · 07-24-2003, 04:29 AM

haha you can't delete that file. It holds all the data which is in your ram at the moment.

And I am not lughing at you, I just remembered that I had the same problem and frothed at the mouth trying to delete it till i figured out what it is.

acid_kewpie · 07-24-2003, 04:30 AM

i remember the exact same probl;em less than 24 hours ago... maybe a search would have helped?

Vlad_M · 07-24-2003, 04:35 AM

edit: clicked twice

Thymox · 07-24-2003, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by fancypiper You can safely delete core files if you don't de-bug or submit bug reports/ [/B]

However, rrodden111, since it is a virtual filesystem, the 909Mb file doesn't actually exist, so deleting it will do very little! Unless you have a need to go poking around in the proc directory (it can be quite handy for finding out system information), I would ignore it if I were you.