[asterisk-users] How to generate core dump?

[Klaus Darilion]

Danny Nicholas schrieb:
> You would think this, but I've seen asterisk create 100 or more dumps in an
> hour of 10+Mb.  Depending on Inode size, etc., this situation could push a
> system into a "hurting" capacity rather quickly.  Also, many shops use older
> technology and compound this by RAID striping, which can reduce your
> effective capacity by up to 70%.  Just an observation.

If my Asterisk crashes 100 times per hour I would not be concerned about 
disk sizes, but about the service Asterisk should offer.

klaus
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> Danny Nicholas wrote:
>> You could change your asterisk command to asterisk -vvg, but this will eat
>> your disk space if you have a large number of faults since each core.*
> file
>> produced takes up 1-13 Mb.
>>
>>   
> 
> In the day and age where 500GB hard drives are $75 at Micro Center, hard 
> drive space shouldn't be a concern to many unless you've recycled a 
> system older than four years old. I was out yesterday and the cheapest 
> and smallest drive they carried was a WD 160GB for $40, and until the 
> last year the smallest drive you could get was 80GB, and the year before 
> that 60GB.
> 
> It'd take weeks of core dumps before a blip would show up in df unless 
> it's constantly core dumping, which from what he said I suspect is not 
> the case.
> 
> -Ron
> 
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