From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Aug 28 12:57:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk [146.176.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A0B14D01 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk) Received: from artemis (artemis [146.176.161.5]) by poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA06888 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:56:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:56:21 +0100 (BST) From: Robin Carey X-Sender: bsc4093@artemis To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: core dumping Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hiya Whilst running a very small executable, FreeBSD-3.1 decided to pump 110 megs of core-file into my space restricted H/D :) Apart from the obvious wonderment of why 110 megs of junk was dumped, I noticed that whilst it was dumping, the entire system was locked up and all other processes weren't getting any CPU. Surely this is a Bad Thing (tm). L8r .... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message