Re: [Fedora] Re: kcore

2011-04-20 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 09:48 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: >> So 8Gb are quite far from 128Tb (even if considering the 4KB extra) so >> somewhere there should be a mistake, where? > In the man page? I also have 128T as the reported size, but I'm gue

Re: kcore

2011-04-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 09:48 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: > So 8Gb are quite far from 128Tb (even if considering the 4KB extra) so > somewhere there should be a mistake, where? In the man page? I also have 128T as the reported size, but I'm guessing that's because some kernel structures live at the

Re: kcore

2011-04-20 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 04/19/2011 07:08 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a /proc/kcore file which is huge: 1059057664 >> Is it normal ? > > Everything in /proc is just a window into various kernel data structures. > The pseudo-filesystem you see there doesn'

Re: kcore

2011-04-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 01:08 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I have a /proc/kcore file which is huge: 1059057664 > Is it normal ? man proc poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: kcore

2011-04-19 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/19/2011 07:08 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I have a /proc/kcore file which is huge: 1059057664 > Is it normal ? Everything in /proc is just a window into various kernel data structures. The pseudo-filesystem you see there doesn't exist on disk. In your case, that kcore "file" just

Re: kcore

2011-04-19 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/2011 08:08 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I have a /proc/kcore file which is huge: 1059057664 > Is it normal ? yes. It represents/maps kernel memory. > It may have been created after a crash of nedit and trying to > report a bug. no

Re: kcore

2011-04-19 Thread Paul Morgan
On Apr 19, 2011 8:08 PM, "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a /proc/kcore file which is huge: 1059057664 > Is it normal ? > It may have been created after a crash of nedit and trying to > report a bug. that looks small to me. my 64-bit kernel-rt and f14 kernels all show 128 TiB kcores.