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Re: [RFA/testsuite] Some feedback about bigcore.exp...
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:42:02PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I'm running red hat linux 8 with kernel 2.4.8-14 on an ext3 file system
> > and my core files are sparse. What kernel/file-system do you have
> > where the core files actually take up that much space?
>
> I didn't know about this feature. On my linux laptop (2.6 kernel with
> ext3), ls says I get a corefile of the following size: 2014404608.
> However, the execution of the test is almost instantaneous, so I suspect
> it's sparse too. Is there a way to know the physical size?
Yes: try 'du core'.
> However, I also regularly run the testsuite on other platforms,
> and it did hurt :-/...
I still think we should require a whitelist for this test as a matter
of pragmatism. It's not nice to our users if they download GDB 6.1,
build it on Some Supported Non-Linux Operating System, run "make
check", and it eats their machine alive.
Does anyone know of any operating system _other_ than Linux that supports
dumping cores as sparse files?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer