Re: core while attached

Bennett F. Dill
2003-01-28T14:31:08Z

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:51:47AM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > 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
That sounds good. In fact that sounds great... I believe you can use
ulimit -c unlimited... My only question (if anyone knows off hand), is
how to apply the ulimit setting to an application that is started via a
sticky bit... Who's ulimit is actually used? The user or the sticky
bit? And if its the sticky bit, how do i check / modify it?

Thanks,
Ben