Solaris process debugging

Debugging

Set the core file size limit on a process

For example for the sshd (and all resulting childs from now):

ssh-server# prctl -n process.max-core-size -v 2g -t privileged -r -e deny  $(pgrep -u root -o sshd)

Check:

ssh-server# prctl -n process.max-core-size  $(pgrep -u root -o sshd)
process: 1491: /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
NAME    PRIVILEGE       VALUE    FLAG   ACTION                       RECIPIENT
process.max-core-size
        privileged      2.00GB      -   deny                                 -
        system          8.00EB    max   deny                                 -

Now all processes (for example new logged in users) will have a core file size limit of 2GB... really? No!

ssh-client# ssh ssh-server
ssh-server# ulimit -Ha | grep core
core file size          (blocks, -c) 2097152

See what it says: blocks <-- !!! From man page: -c Maximum core file size (in 512-byte blocks)