Quoth David Powell on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:40:46PM -0800:
> Our restarting-too-quickly detection could definitely use
> improvement. I'm pretty sure there's a bug on this, but I don't know
> it off the top of my head.
6219078 svc.startd's algorithm for detecting restart loops should be
configurable
> > Another problem occurred when I disabled the service and wanted to look
> > at the core file - didn't find it.
> >
> > Does SMF respect my setup done with coreadm? I've found somewhere that
> > SMF creates the core files in root directory, but didn't find it there
> > as well. Process created core file when not started over SMF.
> >
> > How does SMF affect core file creation? Should core file be created even
> > if 'ignore_error core' is set?
>
> SMF does nothing to affect core file creation. The only possible
> influence SMF has is it chooses (based on the service's definition)
> which directory to start the service in. In most cases this is /.
> If other services are dumping core, it is possible that your
> service's core file was overwritten.
Also note the corefile_pattern property documented in smf_method(5).
David
