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From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
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Subject: Re: core dumps being overwritten
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exactly. `cat /var/crash/bounds` => 2.

alex

Thomas Backman schrieb am 2009-07-16:
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 09:55, Alexander Best wrote:

> >after a panic and a core dump i was quite surprised to see that one
> > of my
> >previous core dumps got overwritten.  is this behaviour controlled
> >by a sysctl
> >parameter and has changed recently? i had the following contents in
> >/var/crash:

> >bounds
> >core.txt.0
> >core.txt.1
> >core.txt.2
> >info.0
> >info.1
> >info.2
> >minfree
> >vmcore.0
> >vmcore.1
> >vmcore.2

> >after a panic and core dump core.txt.1, info.1 and vmcore.1 got
> >replaced.

> >i'm running r195712 (8.0-BETA2).

> >alex

> >i'm running r195712.
> What does "bounds" contain? savecore reads this file to find the
> next  free spot, so to speak. It should contain 3 at this point, but
> my  guess is that it says 2, if the previous dump got saved as 1.

> Regards,
> Thomas