On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:49, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Just because you don't run them, doesn't mean that you don't have a bunch of
> > programs running. just do a ps -ef and you'll see how much there is - even on
> > an idle system you often have a few dozen processes.
>
> Yes, I am aware. But what process would have consumed about 1G, and then
> deleted it, while *another* process had it also opened?
It's a moderately common practice for programs to delete their own
files while still holding them open and using them. I can't think of
any that do offhand, but...
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Les Mikesell
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