From: mkatiyar@gmail.com (Manish Katiyar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to limit the total size used by core files or automatically delete old corefiles.
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:55:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikXYafYMQkQ3sJgaLZv9hgCbYs+JA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikZCT-cpUbqyNw98jrQOcJ-b_0Qvw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, SADA SIVA REDDY S
<sadasiva.reddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi? All,
> ?? I have a situation like below. I am using RHEL 5.
>
> I have multiple user processes running on my machine.
> I have set the appropriate sizes for core file size.
> But my process maangement demon is designed to restart any process that
> terminates.
> Hence the process starts up again.
> If I have a very bad nasty defect, it will keep on filling my machine with
> core files until I run out of space on the partition.
>
> My Questions:
>
> Is there a provision in Linux to automatically cleanup the old corefiles
> when we reach a certain limit ?
> Is there a provision in Linux to set a upper limit for space occupied by all
> core files (not individual core files) ?
>
> Any inputs appreciated.
May be "man logrotate" can help.
--
Thanks -
Manish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-26 12:31 How to limit the total size used by core files or automatically delete old corefiles SADA SIVA REDDY S
2011-05-26 16:05 ` Andrzej Kardas
2011-05-26 21:55 ` Manish Katiyar [this message]
2011-05-27 8:11 ` SADA SIVA REDDY S
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