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- From: volker@edfd.uucp (Volker Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: How to prevent a large core-dump
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.071514.7566@edfd.uucp>
- Organization: EDAG, ENGINEERING + DESGIN AG, Fulda, FRG
- References: <1992Aug25.173056.13401@utwente.nl>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:15:14 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- soos@math.utwente.nl (Adwin Soos) writes:
-
- >Hello netters,
-
- >A few weeks or even months ago I have read some discussion about the problem
- >of preventing a core-dump. I remember that there were some suggestions on how
- >to prevent that a large core-dump will be made.
- >This problem is now occurring at our place where someone is writing a large
- >program and in some test-cases there is a core dump for more than 60 Mb.
- >This person is not using this core to debug it so maybe we can just stop the
- >creation of this core for this person.
- >Is there someone who can mail me such suggestions?
-
- Well, it depends on the shell you or your user is using. For the csh and
- tcsh (maybe also zsh) you only need to issue:
-
- limit coredumpsize 0
-
- to shrink the size of a core to zero. The core file entry will also be
- created, but it's size ist zero.
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- -volker
- --
- Volker Schmidt | EDAG, Reesbergstr. 1, D-W-6400 Fulda | volker@edag.de
-
- O Herr, gib mir heute meinen taeglichen Einfall
- und vergib mir den von gestern.
-