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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2022-02-08 11:54:37 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2022-02-08 11:55:13 +0100
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man: coredump.conf: document defaults limits
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+++ b/man/coredump.conf.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@
<listitem><para>The maximum size in bytes of a core which will be processed. Core dumps exceeding
this size may be stored, but the backtrace will not be generated. Like other sizes in this same
- config file, the usual suffixes to the base of 1024 are allowed (B, K, M, G, T, P, and E).</para>
+ config file, the usual suffixes to the base of 1024 are allowed (B, K, M, G, T, P, and E). Defaults
+ to 1G on 32bit systems, 32G on 64bit systems.</para>
<para>Setting <varname>Storage=none</varname> and <varname>ProcessSizeMax=0</varname>
disables all coredump handling except for a log entry.</para>
@@ -96,8 +97,9 @@
<term><varname>ExternalSizeMax=</varname></term>
<term><varname>JournalSizeMax=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>The maximum (compressed or uncompressed) size in bytes of a core to be saved. Unit
- suffixes are allowed just as in <option>ProcessSizeMax=</option>.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The maximum (compressed or uncompressed) size in bytes of a core to be saved in
+ separate files on disk (default: 1G on 32bit, 32G on 64bit systems) or in the journal (default:
+ 10M). Unit suffixes are allowed just as in <option>ProcessSizeMax=</option>.</para></listitem>
<para><varname>ExternalSizeMax=infinity</varname> sets the core size to unlimited.</para>
</varlistentry>