Somebody's lying.....

Khannie

What's the craic here?

[root@c7000bl2 mfe]# du -hc core*
115M core.11738
18M core.1268
114M core.13066
125M core.14316
18M core.14665
68M core.14669
117M core.16253
64M core.16521
36M core.1715
126M core.17654
114M core.19261
114M core.20756
107M core.20896
43M core.21675
114M core.2277
114M core.24897
117M core.26254
114M core.26310
52M core.27622
18M core.27744
114M core.2932
117M core.29781
102M core.31327
115M core.3490
125M core.3625
124M core.4186
64M core.4478
63M core.6092
48M core.6143
17M core.9129
2.6G total
[root@c7000bl2 mfe]# ls -lah core*
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:22 core.11738
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1 user user 48M Oct 1 15:17 core.1268
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:42 core.13066
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:42 core.14316
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1 user user 48M Oct 1 15:07 core.14665
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:22 core.14669
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:08 core.16253
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1 user user 11G Sep 23 20:50 core.16521
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1 user user 2.5G Sep 24 09:24 core.1715
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:08 core.17654
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:25 core.19261
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:10 core.20756
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1 user user 5.7G Oct 1 15:28 core.20896
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1 user user 105M Sep 24 10:53 core.21675
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 16:03 core.2277
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:28 core.24897
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:29 core.26254
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:56 core.26310
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1 user user 5.4G Sep 23 21:57 core.27622
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1 user user 48M Oct 1 15:14 core.27744
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 14:55 core.2932
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:16 core.29781
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:16 core.31327
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:19 core.3490
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 16:04 core.3625
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 14:55 core.4186
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1 user user 11G Sep 23 20:21 core.4478
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1 user user 7.3G Oct 1 15:19 core.6092
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1 user user 109M Sep 24 10:40 core.6143
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1 user user 48M Oct 1 15:20 core.9129

niallb

Think you're looking at coredumps on a quiet well resourced machine.
They might be well stored sparse files, and maybe du is honestly telling you how many blocks they're really using?
What kind of filesystem is mfe on ?
What generated the dumps?
'file core*' will probably tell you if you haven't already run it.

Khannie

Oh du was telling the truth alright. That partition was only 30G in size. ext3. I'll have to google this sparse file business you're talking about.

Yeah, they're core files on a box in the oifig. It's fairly high end alright. The process should have been using about 7G of ram when the core happened, so I wasn't surprised at the core size, just that it wasn't actually that size.