On Solaris 8 on x86, mysqld dumps core if
you remove the debug symbols using strip
.
If you are using gcc on Solaris x86 and you experience problems with core dumps under load, you should use the following configure command:
CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_CURSES_H" \ CXX=gcc \ CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors \ -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -DHAVE_CURSES_H" \ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
This avoids problems with the libstdc++
library and with C++ exceptions.
If this doesn't help, you should compile a debug version and run it with a trace file or under gdb. See MySQL Internals: Porting.