Rasputin wrote:
>   1680 rmid     CALL  write(0x2,0xbfbf8144,0x36)
>   1680 rmid     GIO   fd 2 wrote 54 bytes
>        "Activation.main: an exception occurred: File too large"
>   1680 rmid     RET   write 54/0x36

Hmm, this almost appears as if the process would get SIGXFSZ.
Have you set any file size limits in your environment?

For me (ksh):
> ulimit -f
unlimited
> ulimit -a | grep file
file(blocks)         unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 64
>

Jaromir 
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