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- From: rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Rodney Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Enormous core dumps
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.070039.13380@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
- Organization: AOTC - CSSC
- References: <90018@hpunsca.canada.hp.com> <BtutDw.C8D@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep4.163132.22011@ctp.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:00:39 GMT
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- jmay@ctp.com (Jason May) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >Thanks for your help,
- >-Jason (jmay@ctp.com)
-
- Well one user here produced a 30MB core from a program they were
- developing and then tried to load it into gdb to debug it which then
- crashed and created a 450MB !!!! Core file.
-
- Rodney...
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