core while attached

Joel Brobecker brobecker@gnat.com
Tue Jan 28 03:51:00 GMT 2003


> 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



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