> > > We just upgraded our system to Linux 1.2.13 and now whenever the > > > mud dumps a corefile, if coredumpsize is unlimited we get a 330+ MB core, Core dumps can be very funny and play wierd mind games with you... I had once what appered to be a 1.2 GIG (no joke) core dump. However, if this were true, my quota would have been pegged before even 1/10th of the core file could be written. What is actually going on, is that core dumps usually contain a lot of NULLs (0's). Instead of writing a million zeros to disk, the file has some wierd deal in it that just says, from this point to this point, there are a million zeros... So, core files are in actuallity quite small by comparision (like around 10-100k or so). Just thought i'd share.... :) -Stillwater +------------------+------------------------------------+ | Andrew Patzwald | Endorian Empires Mud Administrator | | amp@seattleu.edu | handel.seattleu.edu 7777 | +------------------+------------------------------------+ | IEEE/APS Member | Team Foreclosure ][ | +------------------+------------------------------------+
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