What is /proc/kcore

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Sun Mar 26 00:40:39 UTC 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>I'm still curious though, what is /proc/kcore? Why does it "look"
>>huge when everything else in /proc looks either 0kb or 4.0kb?
> 
> If you are 
> truly masochistic, you can cat it (as root) to see what it looks 
> like. Use cat, not less.

Hmm.... in theory, if I use less I'd get an infinite loop right? :)
It would make the used memory grow exponentially, right? Would that make 
the system crash?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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