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Top Forums Web Development Finding Cause of Memory Leak Post 302758047 by Skrynesaver on Friday 18th of January 2013 11:19:23 AM
Old 01-18-2013
First you need to enable cores so that you can see what causes the crash (and be sure of the process that is crashing), as root
Code:
mkdir /cores
echo "/tmp/cores/core.%e.%p.%h.%t" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

This will give you core file names that "just make sense(TM)"


Unfortunately the next step is a little complex, you need to run
Code:
gdb -c $core_file_name -e $path_to_named_executable_in_core

This will at least give you the reason for the crash
next run
Code:
gdb> bt -all

this will let you know what was happening at the time of the crash, however gdb is a bit arcane for someone whose knowledge of Linux is limited
 

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