>
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
>> I keep finding in my home directory a file called "Core", with a
dangerous
>> looking icon ;-)
>>
>> The satus bar tell me its a "core dump"; what's its use ? Can it be
> deleted
>> safely ? How does it come here ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
> =============================
> A "core dump" is a file left by a "crashed" program that would allow
> someone who knows what they're doing (not me, hehehehe) to figure out
> what might have gone wrong. If you're not sure what it is, my guess
> is that it would be of little use to me (or me ;o) ). You can safely
> delete such files.
> HTH,
> Mike
> --
> "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting,
killing
> and dreadful idolatry took place there!"
> --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
>
> -
> I don't know too much about it this, but my understanding is the
Core is literally a dump of programme memory that's created after a
programme crashes. If you have a few of these they can start to eat up
memory. So, you actually need to manage them. The best thing to do is
check what the memory limit is on these. You can do this with the #
ulimit command. To check use it with it's -c command like:
# ulimit -c
and you'll get a readout like: 1000000 , which means it's limited to
1million 52-byte blocks.
use the same command to change this.
eg.
# ulimit -c 1000
mike
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