On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Stef Coene wrote:

...

Would it be safe for me to delete these core files and start working on this task from this day forward? What can I use to read these core files? I noticed they're not text files so I assume there is some bb utility to read them. With the exception of these core* files, I would expect Hobbit to peak at 200MB which I could do in a ~3 minutes You can delete the core files, but you should also try to find out why the are created. If you use rsync, you can exclude these core files from being rsync'd

.. and you can check "why they crashed" with

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html#bugreport

If one of the Hobbit tools crashes and leaves a core-file (usually in

the ~hobbit/server/tmp/ directory), please use the gdb tool to pinpoint where the crash occurred:

* Login as the Hobbit user
* $ cd ~/server
  $ gdb bin/PROGRAMFILE tmp/COREFILE
  then at the gdb> prompt, execute the command
  gdb> bt

Cheers,

   Martin