Can I delete the files in /proc

From: Zu, Hongya <Zuh_at_pediatrics.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:52:29 -0500

In My Digital Unix computer I found some files that take lot of disk space.
Can I delete these file?
If I delete these files My computer can still work very well?
The files is displayed as below:

csh:godzilla:/proc>ls -l
total 1638280
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 16416 Feb 2 13:15 ./
-rw------- 1 root system 807886848 Feb 2 13:15 00000
-rw------- 1 root system 8650752 Feb 2 13:15 00001
-rw------- 1 root system 9248768 Feb 2 13:15 00003
-rw------- 1 root system 17145856 Feb 2 13:15 00025
-rw------- 1 root system 17170432 Feb 2 13:15 00110
-rw------- 1 root system 17489920 Feb 2 13:15 00114
-rw------- 1 root system 17694720 Feb 2 13:15 00290
-rw------- 1 root system 17760256 Feb 2 13:15 00292
-rw------- 1 root system 17145856 Feb 2 13:15 00294
-rw------- 1 root system 17145856 Feb 2 13:15 00296
-rw------- 1 root system 17702912 Feb 2 13:15 00298
-rw------- 1 root system 17719296 Feb 2 13:15 00301
-rw------- 1 root system 17768448 Feb 2 13:15 00303
-rw------- 1 root system 17432576 Feb 2 13:15 00411
-rw------- 1 root system 17186816 Feb 2 13:15 00419
-rw------- 1 root system 25673728 Feb 2 13:15 00420
-rw------- 1 root system 25624576 Feb 2 13:15 00421
-rw------- 1 root system 25608192 Feb 2 13:15 00422
-rw------- 1 root system 34373632 Feb 2 13:15 00435
-rw------- 1 root system 27738112 Feb 2 13:15 00487
-rw------- 1 root system 17186816 Feb 2 13:15 00496
-rw------- 1 root system 17154048 Feb 2 13:15 00529
-rw------- 1 root system 17203200 Feb 2 13:15 00546
-rw------- 1 root system 18497536 Feb 2 13:15 00571
-rw------- 1 root system 18284544 Feb 2 13:15 00589
-rw------- 1 root system 17637376 Feb 2 13:15 00596
-rw------- 1 root system 18948096 Feb 2 13:15 00597
-rw------- 1 root system 25796608 Feb 2 13:15 00609
-rw------- 1 root system 26066944 Feb 2 13:15 00613
-rw------- 1 root system 38969344 Feb 2 13:15 00614
-rw------- 1 root system 8658944 Feb 2 13:15 00619
-rw------- 1 root system 34816000 Feb 2 13:15 00852
-rw------- 1 root system 26320896 Feb 2 13:15 00865
-rw------- 1 munsonr users 18325504 Feb 2 13:15 02422
-rw------- 1 root system 17227776 Feb 2 13:15 02424
-rw------- 1 root adm 41615360 Feb 2 13:15 07811
-rw------- 1 root adm 17489920 Feb 2 13:15 25250
-rw------- 1 root adm 25944064 Feb 2 13:15 25267
-rw------- 1 zuh users 25886720 Feb 2 13:15 25361
-rw------- 1 zuh users 17489920 Feb 2 13:15 25396
-rw------- 1 root adm 18202624 Feb 2 13:15 25940
-rw------- 1 root adm 17481728 Feb 2 13:15 26010
-rw------- 1 root adm 18202624 Feb 2 13:15 26023
drwxr-xr-x 35 root system 8192 Feb 2 11:45 ../


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Hongya Zu
Research Information Service
Children's Research Institute
700 Children's Drive
Columbus, OH 43205
Phone: (614) 722-2914
Fax: (614) 722-2716
Email: zuh_at_pediatrics.ohio-state.edu
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Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 18:59:58 NZDT

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