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[jira] [Assigned] (TS-3417) Use madvise() with MADV_DONTDUMP option to limit core sizes

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-3417?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Phil Sorber reassigned TS-3417:
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    Assignee: Phil Sorber

> Use madvise() with MADV_DONTDUMP option to limit core sizes
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>                 Key: TS-3417
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-3417
>             Project: Traffic Server
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Phil Sorber
>            Assignee: Phil Sorber
>
> When ATS crashes it often leaves behind very large core files, in the hundreds of gigabytes. A large percentage of these core files are useless data in the IO buffers. We can limit the pages that the kernel dumps with madvise().
> Note: This will only work on Linux 3.4+.



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