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- From: shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah)
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- Subject: Re: How to prevent a large core-dump
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 17:49:04 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.173056.13401@utwente.nl>
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- In article <1992Aug25.173056.13401@utwente.nl>, 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?
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |> Adwin Soos
- |>
- |> E-mail : A.B.Soos@math.utwente.nl University of Twente,
- |> Department of Applied Mathematics,
- |> Enschede,
- |> The Netherlands.
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- If you are using C shell put folowing in your (users) .cshrc file:
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- limit coredump 0
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