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BillDuck

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Message 89808 - Posted: 27 Jan 2019, 2:38:53 UTC

BOINC 7.14.2 (x64)
Fedora Linux 29
World Community Grid

When I stop boinc-client, if there are any WCG Microbiome Immunity Project tasks running, they will abort / abend. None of the other WCG tasks do this. (I have posted this info on the WCG Microbiome Immunity Project forum.) My question for this forum: when these tasks abend, my system tries to take a core dump. However, it is unable to do so because the dump exceeds the resource limits - set to 2G for process size. I don't think my journal limit of 300M is relevant - only a half dozen lines or so show up in the journal. When these processes are running, they use about 270M of memory. I've never seen anything else for which the core dump was too large - no problem with taking a core dump of the gnome desktop, for example. Any ideas why the core dump is so large?

When I restart boinc-client, the tasks pick-up with the last checkpoint - just like the tasks that didn't abend.
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Message 89809 - Posted: 27 Jan 2019, 8:23:38 UTC - in response to Message 89808.  

Probably nothing to do with this but I was struck by the 2GB being exceeded. When CPDN servers go down and stop accepting the zip data files, if total upload size exceeds 2GB the task will crash.
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