"ulimit -c unlimited" not working

[David Barr]

I’m trying to capture a core file from a process panic (SIGSEGV) to try to help diagnose the problem, but I can’t get the process to dump core.

I’m running Cloverleaf 5.7 rev2 on Red Hat 5.1.  I’ve changed the “ulimit -c 0” command in /etc/profile to “ulimit -c unlimited”.  I logged out, logged back in and restarted all of my processes.

The process died again and still no core dump.  Is there a limit somewhere else on core dumps?

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

From the dev team,

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To stop the engine panic output and get a core dump one must set the env var ALLOW_CORE to 1 for the engine process. Any value will work as only checks to see if env var is defined.

Normally one checks for the core limit using ulimit -a and he does not indicate that the was done so wonder if the limit actually changed. (On AIX the command is unlimit -c -1 to set unlimited but never looked at linux.)

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[David Barr]

Thanks.  I’ll try that.  And, yes, I did verify with “ulimit -a” that my limits were set the way that I wanted.

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