On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Stephan Wiesand <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 17, 2010, at 16:57 , Derrick Brashear wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I submitted a patch which would use the fact that bosserver runs as >> root to override resource limits and always drop a core. The issue >> it's intended to address is that often people will start bosserver >> from contaminated environments (where coredumpsize is limited) and >> then have a crash, and can provide no data... >> >> Is anyone deliberately turning off cores with limit? > > yes, we are. Typical servers have more virtual memory than would fit onto any > filesystem except /vicepx if fully occupied by the server process. In > addition, core dumps tend to be a security hazard, hence 0 is the default > limit for any process here. I do see why your preferences are different > though ;-) > >> Would a command >> line switch to bosserver be acceptable to you in lieu of it? > > Fine.
The patch as in gerrit has been revised to do so, though I have not tested it yet. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
