Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sgi!daveh@xtenk.sgi.com From: daveh@xtenk.sgi.com (David A Higgen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: /debug (again and again and again...) Message-ID: <42340@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 18:31:06 GMT Sender: daveh@xtenk.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 30 > #/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. > 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 Tom, didn't you READ the article you were appending to? Repeat After Me, 500 times: "/debug is NOT my swap space". /debug is simply an informational window to processes' virtual space, used by debuggers (eg dbx). IT NEITHER CONSUMES NOR PROVIDES PHYSICAL RESOURCES. /debug is not "on" a disk partition. Your swap space IS on one or more disk partitions reserved for the purpose, normally partition 1 on the root disk. Other partitions can be added to the swap space; try 'man swap' for details. Incidentally, is anyone from Tech Pubs here reading this group? I would guess that the continuing confusion on the /debug issue is a strong suggestion that documentation on the point needs to be improved... Dave Higgen