Hi all, I noticed today I had several large core dumps in my home directory, and two buried under my public_html directory. The directories I found them in contained no executables and as far as I know were not working directories for executables (just PHP scripts used by the web server), so I can't imagine how they got there.
-rw------- 1 dcoetzee users 191463424 May 5 06:56 core
-rw------- 1 dcoetzee users 38797312 Sep 29 2012 core
This exceeded my hard quota without my knowledge. Any idea what's up with this? Can I prevent it from reoccurring? Thanks.
Derrick Coetzee wrote:
Hi all, I noticed today I had several large core dumps in my home directory, and two buried under my public_html directory. The directories I found them in contained no executables and as far as I know were not working directories for executables (just PHP scripts used by the web server), so I can't imagine how they got there.
You can run "pstack core" to try to figure out what went wrong. I've never found pstack's output particularly useful, but it at least can usually identify the specific script that's causing the issue.
MZMcBride
On 19/06/13 00:12, Derrick Coetzee wrote:
Hi all, I noticed today I had several large core dumps in my home directory, and two buried under my public_html directory. The directories I found them in contained no executables and as far as I know were not working directories for executables (just PHP scripts used by the web server), so I can't imagine how they got there.
-rw------- 1 dcoetzee users 191463424 May 5 06:56 core
-rw------- 1 dcoetzee users 38797312 Sep 29 2012 core
This exceeded my hard quota without my knowledge. Any idea what's up with this? Can I prevent it from reoccurring? Thanks.
-- Derrick Coetzee User:Dcoetzee
The php fastcgi script crashed and left a useless core.
This has happened for a long time, see https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1505 but it had (apparently) been fixed, so perhaps it got reintroduced when the web servers were reconfigured?
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