commit 6d72c175edbb7654a643a86411f6f95aae16d10d
author Benoît Ganne <bganne@cisco.com> Thu Jul 04 11:25:59 2019 +0200
committer Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com> Fri Jul 12 01:51:59 2019 +0000
tree e409af87cec7cf1116691d5018703c6bdd223ce0
parent bbe6d110a10d64e5bde21c4b839642acfbf91cbd

docs: how to enable coredump with systemd

Type: docs

Change-Id: I1f657389fec716cc6cdc942803e65f861ffea5f5
Signed-off-by: Benoît Ganne <bganne@cisco.com>

docs/troubleshooting/reportingissues/reportingissues.rst

diff --git a/docs/troubleshooting/reportingissues/reportingissues.rst b/docs/troubleshooting/reportingissues/reportingissues.rst
index 261dec9..73b2397 100644
--- a/docs/troubleshooting/reportingissues/reportingissues.rst
+++ b/docs/troubleshooting/reportingissues/reportingissues.rst
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@
     # ulimit -c unlimited
     # echo 2 > /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable
 
+If you start VPP from systemd, you also need to edit
+/lib/systemd/system/vpp.service and uncomment the "LimitCORE=infinity"
+line before restarting VPP.
+
 Vpp core files often appear enormous. Gzip typically compresses them
 to manageable sizes. A multi-GByte corefile often compresses to 10-20
 Mbytes.