Oracle on Linux needs access to /proc? Only for Enterprise Manager?

So, on some of our systems oracle runs as the oracle user, and the /proc filesystem is off limits for standard user accounts. This hasn't affected much...however I came across the error:
Error retrieving information from EMD. Exception: oracle.sysman.emSDK.emd.comm.MetricGetException: Could not open /proc/partitions

today...Hrm. Wonder what thats hurting...Probably nothing as everything seems to be running properly.

In addition...uname must be unrestricted in order for Oracle Wallet Manager (owm) to function. Probably lots of other java stuff too.