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How big should bigcore.core be?
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: cagney at gnu dot org
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:26:18 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: How big should bigcore.core be?
Hi Andrew,
How big should the core files generated by bigcore be? A lot smaller
than the amount of memory that bigcore allocates on the heap? Is that
what you mean by "sparse" core files? Is the idea that we disable
this test on platforms that don't generate such "sparse" core dumps?
If the latter is true, I really think we should disable this test by
default and only enable it on systems where we know we won't generate
ridiculously large files running the risk of crashing the machine.
For my work on GDB, I regularly use machines that are not mine, and
I'd really hate it if I crashed those.
Mark