As far as I know, there is *not* a correlation between the total available amount of physical memory and the size of a core file (unless there are weird things going on with VM of which I'm not aware), but there is certainly a relationship between the amount of memory used by a process and the resulting core file should the program crash. After all, a core file is basically the memory image of your program at the time it crashed.
The name "core" itself refers to the old slang for memory, since it actually *was* "core" memory. ----- Original Message ----- From: "siva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:31 AM Subject: core and RAM > Hi.. > > Is there any correlation between the size of RAM in the machine. > > i have seen that whenever my netscape core dumps the size is around 80 MB > and when i check top i see that netscape seems to take that much memory > > RKSSN > > > -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
