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Hi guys,
We have been experiencing several crashes on our Flame system.
We have turned savecore off but still the system will save CORE files.
And it won’t save them under the /var/adm/crash directoy.
It will save the CORE file under the directory of the project in which we’re currently working.
These CORE files are really big and sometimes it will fillup our hard drive.
Any Ideas why the system is saving CORE files?
Rgds,
Francisco
Savecore is only for kernel dumps, not for when an application like Flame crashes, so that won’t make any difference for you 🙂
It’s possible to change the maximum size of a core file with the shell or systune, but think carefully… one day you might need to debug a core dump or send if to Discreet or something…
To do it for the current shell only (so do this before running Flame): “limit coredumpsize 1” would restrict cores to one kilobyte – you could set it to zero but it’s nice to know that something has crashed by checking the date on the core file.
You could do it system-wide with “systune rlimit_core_cur 1024” as root, but just make sure you remember you’ve done it, or you’ll cause great confusion when someone tries to debug something 🙂
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