From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Xavier Wielemans <willy@alterface.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: abort() and exit(1) make RHEL freeze when core size limit is higher than 2 MB
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:28:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040428232847.GE16387@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040421141000.02798b80@mail.fluxtopia.net>
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?
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2004-04-21 12:11 abort() and exit(1) make RHEL freeze when core size limit is higher than 2 MB Xavier Wielemans
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