Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!chem.ucsd.edu!tps From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Disappearing debug Message-ID: <574@chem.ucsd.EDU> Date: 29 Sep 89 09:46:05 GMT References: <89Sep19.181545edt.57392@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> <28319@abbott.mips.COM> Reply-To: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch) Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego Lines: 22 In article <28319@abbott.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes: #In article <89Sep19.181545edt.57392@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> LEONARDZ@UOGUELPH.BITNET ("Len Zaifman UoGuelph 824-4120 xt 6566", 519) writes: ## Our operations group was running a backup recently, which crashed. ##The system was brought up again and much to my dismay(at a later date), there ##was no /debug file system(using df to show what was there). ##In particular, how can processes run without swap space?? Are they all kept ##in memory?? #/debug (or, in RISC/os, /proc) is *NOT* your swap space. It's a special #type of virtual filesystem which presents a view of your running processes #accessible through the file namespace. If it's not mounted, you just can't #use programs (like some debuggers and other tools) that access processes by #opening them like files. This has *nothing* to do with your swap space. #ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 But the burning question is... If your disk is partitioned so that /debug gets, say, 53meg, does that mean that you only have 53meg of swap space, maximum? -- || Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry tps@chem.ucsd.edu