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Re: core while attached
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>
- To: "Bennett F. Dill" <bdill at linux dot dillfamily dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:51:47 +0400
- Subject: Re: core while attached
- References: <20030127183252.GA9690@linux.dillfamily.org>
> Anyway, the application runs in the background and is a server to about
> 25 clients concurrently. It takes a few hours for the app to sigsegv.
> Now, it never dumped a core for some reason, so i just attach gdb to the
> process and continue and wait for the error to rear its head.
Maybe your server is larger than a certain size and that past this size
the system elects not to dump a core file. I don't know on which system
you are running, but you can usually raise the limit by using utilities
like "ulimit", for instance "ulimit -c 100000" or somesuch.
--
Joel