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The /proc filesystem

The /proc  filesystem contains a illusionary filesystem. It does not exist on a disk. Instead, the kernel creates it in memory. It is used to provide information about the system (originally about processes, hence the name). Some of the more important files and directories are explained below. The /proc  filesystem is described in more detail in the proc  manual page.

/proc/1 
A directory with information about process number 1. Each process has a directory below /proc  with the name being its process identification number.
/proc/cpuinfo 
Information about the processor, such as its type, make, model, and perfomance.
/proc/devices 
List of device drivers configured into the currently running kernel.
/proc/dma 
Shows which DMA channels are being used at the moment.
/proc/filesystems 
Filesystems configured into the kernel.
/proc/interrupts 
Shows which interrupts are in use, and how many of each there have been.
/proc/ioports 
Which I/O ports are in use at the moment.
/proc/kcore 
An image of the physical memory of the system. This is exactly the same size as your physical memory, but does not really take up that much memory; it is generated on the fly as programs access it. (Remember: unless you copy it elsewhere, nothing under /proc  takes up any disk space at all.)
/proc/kmsg 
Messages output by the kernel. These are also routed to syslog .
/proc/ksyms 
Symbol table for the kernel.
/proc/loadavg 
The `load average' of the system; three meaningless indicators of how much work the system has to do at the moment.
/proc/meminfo 
Information about memory usage, both physical and swap.
/proc/modules 
Which kernel modules are loaded at the moment.
/proc/net 
Status information about network protocols.
/proc/self 
A symbolic link to the process directory of the program that is looking at /proc . When two processes look at /proc , they get different links. This is mainly a convenience to make it easier for programs to get at their process directory.
/proc/stat 
Various statistics about the system, such as the number of page faults since the system was booted.
/proc/uptime 
The time the system has been up.
/proc/version 
The kernel version.

Note that while the above files tend to be easily readable text files, they can sometimes be formatted in a way that is not easily digestable. There are many commands that do little more than read the above files and format them for easier understanding. For example, the free  program reads /proc/meminfo  and converts the amounts given in bytes to kilobytes (and adds a little more information, as well).


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Lars Wirzenius
Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997


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