RE: Core files / debugging squid?

> Hi all,
>
> One of my squid caches is dumping core every now and again, it appears
> to be related to my patches allowing > 1024 fds on Linux when using
> polled I/O. Can anyone tell me how to get a core file out of squid?
>
> I have this in the config:
> coredump_dir /usr/local/squid
>
> Unfortunately no core is appearing... is this broken at the
> moment or am
> I doing something wrong? :)
>
> It's squid-2.4.STABLE6 + patches. None of the patches are substantial
> though.

Did you
ulimit -c unlimited

before starting squid?
Many OSes have corefiles disabled by default at startup.

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	/kinkie