Hey guys,

Recently I've been noticing an increase in the size of the core dumps generated by my application. Initially, they were just around 5MB in size and contained around 5 stack frames, and now I have core dumps of > 2GBs and the information contained within them are no different from the smaller dumps.

Is there any way I can control the size of core dumps generated? Shouldn't they be at least smaller than the application binary itself?

Binaries are compiled in this way:

• Compiled in release mode with debug symbols (ie, -g compiler option in GCC).
• Debug symbols are copied onto a
  separate file and stripped from the
  binary.
• A GNU debug symbols link is added to the binary.

At the beginning of the application, there's a call to setrlimit which sets the core limit to infinity -- Is this the problem?