Having the core dumps in one place.

freezr

freezr

Hi guys,

I have this fixation to have my "graphic design shop" based on FreeBSD.
I understand someone might think that I am crazy, but I'd like to do it not matter what.

Now the majority of the Open Source Design software (Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, etc...) constantly leave huge core dump. This is not very encouraging however the problem is not the dumps themselves, but that are scattered all over the place on my working directories.

Is there a knob to force these dumps to be saved in one place? Although I think I had better to stop creating them altogether because tends to be huge, once I found one of 26GB... 😱

Thanks... 🙏
 
cracauer@ said:
They shouldn't coredump in the first place, though.

Did you look at any of the dumps?
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From time to time yes, but it is like reading the Rosetta stone.
I can imagine the problem is these software are mainly tested on Linux.

However a 27GB dump core there is no way to share it with somebody... 😵
 
If you want you can disable coredumps using 'ulimit -c 0'. You probably have it set to 'ulimit -c unlimited' by default. If you set the value to 0 processes won't write a corefile when they segfault.

But the real question is why you are getting programs dumping core at all. And 27GB for a corefile sounds crazy, it's difficult to know what's happening without more details. Is it particular programs that are dumping core? Can you list a couple of examples using 'ls -l'?
 
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