With a yet not perfectly working (X-)application I happen to get X-server crashes and core dumps.
(1.) The sheer volume of those "core.nnnn" dumps is flabbergasting: tendentially, they fill up all available volume of the main Linux partition - and some of these dumps did, and this apparently "spilled over" and damaged some of the X setup -, and they are in the range of 600+ MB. I have some trouble to understand this: -- The "core" (how much is this identical with the loaded kernel?) couldn't be possibly that large; there's only just a bit more than half of that RAM installed in the machine (320 MB), definitely not 600 MB or more. -- What is it that gets dumped, really ? (2.) Using "mc" (the Midnight Commander), I found such a "core.1216" dump indicated as a file with a size of "637164K", and deleted it. Running "df" before and after, I get quite different data: Before deleting: 1875228 1K-blocks in use After deleting: 1429892 1K-blocks in use Difference thus: 445336 1K-blocks -- clearly less than the 637164K of the deleted file according to MC. Where have the missing 192828K been/vanished ? Who is correct here, "df" or "mc" ? And what/whom is to be believed ? // Heimo Claasen // Brussels 2002-11-24 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
