Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:28:47 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: abort() and exit(1) make RHEL freeze when core size limit is higher than 2 MB |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Xavier Wielemans wrote: > [ I hope this is a relevant linux-kernel bug - I think so, all apologies if > not... ] > [ Please CC me personally if replying, I'm not subscribed to the list - > thank you ! ] > > Hi all, > > I encountered the following problem - when my C++ application executes the > abort() or exit(1) system instructions, if the core size limit was > previously set to more than ~2MB (ulimit -c 2000), my PC freezes totally > and must be power-cycled... > > If the core limit is left untouched to 0 (default), the abort or exit > instructions are executed without problems, but of course no core file is > dumped ! > > If core limit is set to 2000 or less, a core file is dumped but it is > unreadable (certainly because it is trimmed to less than its actual size). > > If core limit is set to 4000 or higher (including 'ulimit -c unlimited') > the machine freezes as soon as abort() or exit() are executed. > > Here are my configuration details : > > [wielemans@electro:wielemans] cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 1) > > [wielemans@electro:wielemans] uname -a > Linux electro 2.4.21-9.0.1.EL #2 Fri Apr 16 13:51:32 CEST 2004 i686 i686 > i386 GNU/Linux > > [wielemans@electro:wielemans] gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man > --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix > --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit > --host=i386-redhat-linux > Thread model: posix > gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-24) > > If you need more details, please ask ! Any help or idea welcome, thanks in > advance...
Xavier,
Odd. Is this the latest RH update? Maybe you can try a mainline kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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