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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 10 /proc making filesystem full Post 302324463 by Perderabo on Wednesday 10th of June 2009 09:55:03 PM
Old 06-10-2009
I guess that I will try one more time... /proc is an illusion. It does not actually consume disk space.

If you create a new process with, say pid 1234 and it is using 300 MB of memory, /proc/1234 will magicly pop into existence and it will be 300 MB in size. But you did not lose any disk space. Not one byte.

Now, kill pid 1234 and /proc/1234 will vanish. But you won't get back even one byte of disk space. /proc/1234 is just a way to treat a process as if it was a data file. This makes stuff like debuggers very easy to write.

/dev, on the other hand, is probably a real problem. It is usually caused by someone doing something like:
tar cvf /dev/wrong-name-for-tape-drive /big/collection/of/files

Maybe:
find /dev -type f
will find it for you.
 

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NAME
ClusterSSH::Host - Object representing a host. SYNOPSIS
use ClusterSSH::Host; my $host = ClusterSSH::Host->new({ hostname => 'hostname', }); my $host = ClusterSSH::Host->parse_host_string('username@hostname:1234'); DESCRIPTION
Object representing a host. Include details to contact the host such as hostname/ipaddress, username and port. METHODS
$host=ClusterSSH::Host->new ({ hostname => 'hostname' }) Create a new host object. 'hostname' is a required arg, 'username' and 'port' are optional. Raises exception if an error occurs. $host->get_hostname $host->get_username $host->get_port $host->get_master Return specific details about the host $host->set_username $host->set_port $host->set_master Set specific details about the host after its been created. get_realname If the server name provided is not an IP address (either IPv4 or IPv6) attempt to resolve it and retun the discovered names. get_givenname Alias to get_hostname, for use when " get_realname " might return something different parse_host_string Given a host string, returns a host object. Parses hosts such as check_ssh_hostname Check the objects hostname to see whether or not it may be configured within the users $HOME/.ssh/config configuration file host 192.168.0.1 user@host user@192.168.0.1 host:port [1234:1234:1234::4567]:port 1234:1234:1234::4567 and so on. Cope with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses - raises a warning if the IPv6 address is ambiguous (i.e. in the last example, is the 4567 part of the IPv6 address or a port definition?) and assumes it is part of address. Use brackets to avoid seeing warning. AUTHOR
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