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- From: jmay@ctp.com (Jason May)
- Subject: Enormous core dumps
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.163132.22011@ctp.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:31:32 GMT
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- Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners
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- What kinds of problems can lead to processes crashing and leaving behind
- huge (for example, we had a 50 megabyte one this morning) core files?
- I know how to limit this with limit or ulimit, but I'd like to know
- more about the events that can cause such core dumps to occur.
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- Thanks for your help,
- -Jason (jmay@ctp.com)
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