From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9164 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2004 04:42:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9157 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2004 04:42:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 04:42:02 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 6EDBD47D62; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:42:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Some feedback about bigcore.exp... Message-ID: <20040313044202.GH1135@gnat.com> References: <20040313020758.511364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040313020758.511364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00298.txt.bz2 > I'm running red hat linux 8 with kernel 2.4.8-14 on an ext3 file system > and my core files are sparse. What kernel/file-system do you have > where the core files actually take up that much space? I didn't know about this feature. On my linux laptop (2.6 kernel with ext3), ls says I get a corefile of the following size: 2014404608. However, the execution of the test is almost instantaneous, so I suspect it's sparse too. Is there a way to know the physical size? However, I also regularly run the testsuite on other platforms, and it did hurt :-/... -- Joel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9164 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2004 04:42:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9157 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2004 04:42:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 04:42:02 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 6EDBD47D62; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:42:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:42:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Some feedback about bigcore.exp... Message-ID: <20040313044202.GH1135@gnat.com> References: <20040313020758.511364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040313020758.511364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00298.txt Message-ID: <20040313044200.cxo11BYFUES-0qAl8ZW32Dz1aALEf_DSv9r5OY7UbwA@z> > I'm running red hat linux 8 with kernel 2.4.8-14 on an ext3 file system > and my core files are sparse. What kernel/file-system do you have > where the core files actually take up that much space? I didn't know about this feature. On my linux laptop (2.6 kernel with ext3), ls says I get a corefile of the following size: 2014404608. However, the execution of the test is almost instantaneous, so I suspect it's sparse too. Is there a way to know the physical size? However, I also regularly run the testsuite on other platforms, and it did hurt :-/... -- Joel