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't exist

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: [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 guessing

kcore

2011-04-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
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. Thank. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department

Re: kcore

2011-04-19 Thread Paul Morgan
On Apr 19, 2011 8:08 PM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk 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

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

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 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

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chen, Helen Y wrote: Hi, I am running Fedora 13 with the 2.6.33.5-112-2.2 kernel, and am trying to make an ISO image of my hard disk for other use. Unfortunately “mkisofs” failed because /proc/kcore exceeded its 4GB file size limit. In fact, the size of the kcore on my system

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-13 Thread Tim
Chen, Helen Y: I am running Fedora 13 with the 2.6.33.5-112-2.2 kernel, and am trying to make an ISO image of my hard disk for other use. Rick Stevens: genisoimage -m /proc/* -m /sys/* -m /dev/* -m core ... It's probably worth pointing this out: Do you really want an ISO image of your

Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-12 Thread Chen, Helen Y
Hi, I am running Fedora 13 with the 2.6.33.5-112-2.2 kernel, and am trying to make an ISO image of my hard disk for other use. Unfortunately mkisofs failed because /proc/kcore exceeded its 4GB file size limit. In fact, the size of the kcore on my system is shown to be 128TB, and the machine

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/12/2010 11:24 AM, Chen, Helen Y wrote: Hi, I am running Fedora 13 with the 2.6.33.5-112-2.2 kernel, and am trying to make an ISO image of my hard disk for other use. Unfortunately mkisofs failed because /proc/kcore exceeded its 4GB file size limit. In fact, the size of the kcore

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Larsen
it highlights the nick. Hmm. -- #Debian On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 12:24 -0600, Chen, Helen Y wrote: Hi, I am running Fedora 13 with the 2.6.33.5-112-2.2 kernel, and am trying to make an ISO image of my hard disk for other use. Unfortunately “mkisofs” failed because /proc/kcore exceeded

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-12 Thread Emilio Fernandes
/kcore exceeded its 4GB file size limit. In fact, the size of the kcore on my system is shown to be 128TB, and the machine itself only contains 2GB of RAM. Has anyone experienced the same problem? BTW, the kcore files on my redhat machines reflect the actual RAM size as it should be. Also