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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:15:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Benjamin Ossei <ben@cahostnet.net>
To:        Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, Sean Cull <Sean@blizzard.bc.tac.net>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: procfs full??
Message-ID:  <20010208011504.50B4236F9@sitemail.everyone.net>

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It's pretty possible to fill out procfs b/c I noticed that mine was also at 100% filled.  I haven't looked into it yet though.

--- Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>I don't know what that error message is, but the docs for procfs is 
>easy.  Just try man procfs.  It doesn't *need* to be mounted, but 
>certain programs like top and I believe ps use it.
>	Was downloading the only thing you were doing at the time?  The exact 
>error message might be helpful.  Look in /var/log/messages, and maybe 
>include a good chunk of that file back to the list.  Procfs is the 
>memory file system and it would be strange for it to fill up.  
>Especially without heavy activity.  It doesn't have anything to do with 
>disk space.  Maybe you did fill up one of your partitions already.  
>What does the output of `df `  show?
>
>						Tim
>
>On Wednesday February 07, 2001 18:53, Sean Cull wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place or not, or who's
>> going to end up reading it, but here goes...
>
>You got the right place.  This is a mailing list of FreeBSD users that 
>ask and answer questions about FreeBSD.
>
>> I installed FreeBSD the other day, and accepted the Auto-defaults for
>> partitions (/usr, /var, etc.) and the installation went fine. I then
>> proceeded to install a few ports, and those ran fine. But last night
>> I was downloading something and then I was getting an error saying
>> /proc was full. As much as I've looked, I can't find out exactly what
>> procfs is... I'm wondering how I can be out of space when I have 10
>> gigs free on my drive. Is it a question of resizing my partition
>> scheme? Or are they called slices in BSD?
>> I'm not sure what other information you guys need to answer my
>> question. Even pointing me to documentation on procfs would help.
>> Does it NEED to be mounted? If so, why? If not, why not?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. =)
>>
>> -Sean Cull
>>
>>
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