kcore like everything else in the /proc hierarchy is not really a file but rather a 'virtual' file allowing you to examine different aspects of your system. kcore is just a way to look at your memory (you have 32 MB, right?) In my case its size is 201330688 bytes (192 MB). In reality no file exists and no space is consumed. I will suspect that you just don't have enough memory and that's why kde is slow to start, the kernel has to start using the swap partition heavily. Avi jozien@cybercomm.net wrote:

When I started kde i noticed that it took a long time to load and there was a lot of activity on the hard drive and using df, I noticed the hard drive was getting loaded. Using find to check files less then 1 day old, I located the file /proc/kcore and it was over 33 meg. I tried to delete it as root but couldn't . I got a message "Operation not permitted"

-r-------- 1 root root 33558528 Nov 29 18:33 kcore

Why can't I delete it? Most core files can be deleted.

TIF

jozien@cybercomm.net

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