Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:04:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: core dumps being overwritten Message-ID: <permail-2009071608041780e26a0b0000776e-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <B18017C3-94E0-4CCC-A632-43A9DFF221A4@exscape.org>
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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
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