From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20148 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2011 18:11:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 20140 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2011 18:11:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,TW_BJ,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:11:01 +0000 Received: from mailhost4.vmware.com (mailhost4.vmware.com [10.16.67.124]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D67A5A002; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:11:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost4.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876BBC9EA3; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:11:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D6E8834.8030401@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:11:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: santoshp CC: "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: debug core file of size 50GB using GDB in RHEL5 References: <31029843.post@talk.nabble.com> <31029983.post@talk.nabble.com> <31046672.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <31046672.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 santoshp wrote: > Thanks to all. You are true as the objdump -s does not show any symbols which > tells that the core is not usable for debugging. > > Thanks, > Santosh Point of interest -- core files never have symbols. But they have section headers and such.