Re: core dumps being overwritten

On Jul 16, 2009, at 09:55, Alexander Best wrote:

> after a panic and a core dump i was quite surprised to see that one  
> of my
> previous core dumps got overwritten.  is this behaviour controlled  
> by a sysctl
> parameter and has changed recently? i had the following contents in
> /var/crash:
>
> bounds
> core.txt.0
> core.txt.1
> core.txt.2
> info.0
> info.1
> info.2
> minfree
> vmcore.0
> vmcore.1
> vmcore.2
>
> after a panic and core dump core.txt.1, info.1 and vmcore.1 got  
> replaced.
>
> i'm running r195712 (8.0-BETA2).
>
> alex
>
> i'm running r195712.
What does "bounds" contain? savecore reads this file to find the next  
free spot, so to speak. It should contain 3 at this point, but my  
guess is that it says 2, if the previous dump got saved as 1.

Regards,
Thomas