Re: stress test for parallel workers

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> On 07/08/2019 16:57, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Also, if you're using systemd or something else that thinks it
>> ought to interfere with where cores get dropped, that could be
>> a problem.

> I think they should just go to a file called "core", I don't think I've 
> changed any settings related to it, at least. I tried "find / -name 
> core*", but didn't find any core files, though.

On Linux machines the first thing to check is

cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

On a Debian machine I have handy, that just says "core", but Red Hat
tends to mess with it ...

            regards, tom lane