On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:41:44PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Ben Hutchings schrieb am Tue 03. Feb, 23:01 (+0000): > > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 12:48 +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > Package: xine-ui > > > Version: 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2.1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Core was generated by `/usr/bin/xine -pq /tmp/2009-05-08.mp3'. > > > Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. > > > > Can you reproduce this with a stable kernel? > > No (I tried 2.6.28) and today after a reboot, I can't reproduce it with > the same kernel. But I have the core dump. > > > Please send the output of "ulimit -a". > > % ulimit -a > -t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited > -f: file size (blocks) unlimited > -d: data seg size (kbytes) unlimited > -s: stack size (kbytes) 8192 > -c: core file size (blocks) unlimited > -m: resident set size (kbytes) 300000 > -u: processes 192 [...]
The getrlimit(2) manual page says that Linux treats the process limit as a thread limit, so it seems likely that xine hit this limit when trying to start a new thread. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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