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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: psmith@gnu.org
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Partial cores using Linux "pipe" core_pattern
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab5aq3dq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242609756.2800.135.camel@homebase.localnet> (Paul Smith's message of "Sun, 17 May 2009 21:22:36 -0400")

Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts about where I can look next to try to
> figure out what's going on?  Ideas or knowledge about limitations of the
> kernel's core_pattern pipe capability, such as timing issues etc., that
> might be leaving me with short cores?

Sounds more like a kernel problem to me. It would be good if you
could find out in what way the cores are truncated, then do a proper
kernel bug report.

Or add printks to the kernel coredumper and try to figure out this
way where/why it stops.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-18  1:23 Paul Smith
2009-05-18  6:05 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-05-18 13:22   ` Paul Smith
2009-05-18  7:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-05-18 13:29   ` Paul Smith
2009-05-18 13:49     ` Andreas Schwab
2009-05-18 14:32       ` Paul Smith
2009-05-21 16:32       ` Paul Smith
2009-05-26 19:26         ` Paul Smith

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