From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7425 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2004 16:58:23 -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 7417 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2004 16:58:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 16:58:22 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2CSo-0006JU-2O; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:58:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Some feedback about bigcore.exp... Message-ID: <20040313165817.GA24188@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Brobecker , Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20040313020758.511364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <20040313044202.GH1135@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040313044202.GH1135@gnat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00305.txt.bz2 On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:42:02PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > 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? Yes: try 'du core'. > However, I also regularly run the testsuite on other platforms, > and it did hurt :-/... I still think we should require a whitelist for this test as a matter of pragmatism. It's not nice to our users if they download GDB 6.1, build it on Some Supported Non-Linux Operating System, run "make check", and it eats their machine alive. Does anyone know of any operating system _other_ than Linux that supports dumping cores as sparse files? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7425 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2004 16:58:23 -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 7417 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2004 16:58:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 16:58:22 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2CSo-0006JU-2O; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:58:18 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:58:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Some feedback about bigcore.exp... Message-ID: <20040313165817.GA24188@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Brobecker , Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20040313020758.511364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <20040313044202.GH1135@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040313044202.GH1135@gnat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00305.txt Message-ID: <20040313165800.RE2ULg2IDB6kM43WTiXIHgnZ8GJFtSnowZL8vEGmTrQ@z> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:42:02PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > 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? Yes: try 'du core'. > However, I also regularly run the testsuite on other platforms, > and it did hurt :-/... I still think we should require a whitelist for this test as a matter of pragmatism. It's not nice to our users if they download GDB 6.1, build it on Some Supported Non-Linux Operating System, run "make check", and it eats their machine alive. Does anyone know of any operating system _other_ than Linux that supports dumping cores as sparse files? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer