Hello, I know this list has been rather quiet for a while... so I might as well ask a question :-) I've been trying to find some information on /proc/kcore and have not been entirely successful. I know is that it is an alias to memory, that is in ELF format, and that can be used with gdb to debug the kernel. The `k' seems to imply that it is the kernel's memory, but all documentation I've found states that it is the size of physical memory plus 4KB (example below): https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/Reference_Guide/s2-proc-kcore.html This does not seem to be the case, however, when I do a listing in /proc/kcore on my machine (F8) which has 2 GB of memory: ls -lh /proc/kcore -r-------- 1 root root 897M 2008-08-01 19:05 /proc/kcore I have confirmed the same type of results on other machines to which I have access. I also do not seem to have the kcore.h file on my system (and I have kernel-devel installed), since it is a zero byte file: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-07-21 02:05 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.11-60.fc8-i686/include/config/proc/kcore.h I am also aware of other tools that can be used to extract information about kcore like the redhat crash utility: http://people.redhat.com/anderson/ I am wondering why there is a discrepancy between the documentation and the actual implementation of the /proc/kcore file? I would also like to know where I can find more detailed information about the kcore file besides the usual description of what it is and how to use it for debugging. All the best, -Jamie Levy _______________________________________________ Fedora-women-list mailing list Fedora-women-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-women-list
