Re: [Shotwell] How to prevent Shotwell to write core dumps ?

[Tobia Tesan <tobia tesan gmail com>]

On 22/03/2015 16:01, Emilien Martot wrote:
> How to prevent Shotwell to write coredump files as I don't need them ??

You don't, as it's systemd-coredump that creates those, not Shotwell.
A core dump is, in short, a dump of the program's memory (which used 
magnetic core technology in the 70s, hence the name) at the time of 
crashing, created for debug purpouses.
You can safely delete them, unless you want to play coroner on them.

See the documentation for systemd if you don't want them to be created 
in the first place, *probably* you could achieve that by editing 
something in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf

However, if Shotwell is crashing frequently enough to produce 15GB of 
dumps, I guess that might be worth investigating.

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