Thursday, March 21, 2002

Got a tentative go-ahead on two PhD thesis ideas from my advisor today. I'm still way off the mark as usual, but at least I know what to do to come up with a concrete problem to solve. 2:36:39 PM | reply [] Finally realized what was using all the hard disk space I kept on losing, seemingly at random. Core files! In /private/cores on OS X: [p2:6] /private/cores%ls -l total 311M -r-------- 1 root wheel 59M Mar 7 21:18 core.225 -r-------- 1 root wheel 69M Mar 6 23:20 core.226 -r-------- 1 root wheel 61M Mar 20 18:17 core.230 -r-------- 1 root wheel 68M Mar 11 17:13 core.239 -r-------- 1 root wheel 54M Mar 15 23:17 core.241 I have core files enabled because I sometimes need them for debugging, but thought my limiting coredumpsize to 0K was sufficient. However, when daemons (lookupd in the above cases) crash, they still dump core. 12:03:01 AM | reply []