From: Aaron W Morris (aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 17:02:13 EST
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I will take a stab at this. I think there are 2 limiting factors if
core is set to -1:
1. If the file system is not large file enabled, the core can only be
1GB.
2. "fsize" in /etc/security/limits
At 12:17 PM 1/29/2003 -0800, you wrote:
I've inherited the job of admin'ing several AIX
servers. I noticed today while looking through the
/etc/security/limits file that several users have core
set to -1, which according to the note implies an
"unlimited" value. I'm on my way down to talk to
these users (they are all IT dept people, not just
Joe-Blow users) to find out why this is so.
However, I would like to know is there an instance
anyone can think of why core would need to be set to
- -1?
Does that not imply that if a core dump starts, if it
needs to, it will continue to write the core file
until the fssize is met? In most cases, fssize is set
to -1 as well, so wouldn't that mean that the
filesystem could potentially fill up with a core file?
Thanks,
M
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