Hi all, I found a kcore file under the /proc directory. The following makes me rise an eyebrow: # ls -l kcore -r-------- 1 root root 959205376 Jul 14 14:26 kcore # file kcore kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'vmlinux' Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), from 'vmlinux' Does it mean that the system crashed? how can analyze the reasons for that crash? Is it safe to delete this kcore file? Thanks, Martin
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 14.34, Martin Mielke wrote:
Hi all,
I found a kcore file under the /proc directory. The following makes me rise an eyebrow:
# ls -l kcore -r-------- 1 root root 959205376 Jul 14 14:26 kcore
# file kcore kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'vmlinux' Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), from 'vmlinux'
Does it mean that the system crashed? how can analyze the reasons for that crash? Is it safe to delete this kcore file?
Nothing in /proc is a real file. The "files" in there are windows into your kernel, for checking status or dynamically setting runtime parameters. kcore is the kernel core image, as it is in memory
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