soerganda Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 there is something strange on my hosting.There are some files that i did not know that always present themselves and and that files should not exist here, right?. please see the picture, the red circle. I am using the latest wordpress, something strange happened since I upgraded wordpress-core old to new. that files using my storage too much. what should I do?
Wizard Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 This support request is being escalated to our root admin. @xaav: didn't know if you wanted to look at the files before deleting them.
xbox540 Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 these are called Core dump files and Wikipedia says “a core dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed).” Core dumps are often used to diagnose or debug errors in computer programs."wordpres doesn't create these files but there is a problem on that site. Something is crashing like Apache etc hence the core dump.
jje Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 @xboz540 - Yes, HelioHost has recently been attempting to disable core dumps to fix this as it has been consuming lots of disk space.
Byron Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Since cPanel did some work on Stevie recently, they seem to be more common now. I'm having to delete them every day. @soerganda: You can go ahead and delete those core files.
soerganda Posted January 12, 2012 Author Posted January 12, 2012 what? I'm having to delete them every day too? Is there other solution?
Byron Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Hopefully djbob or xaav can fix this from happening, but until then you can upload this coredump sweeper script to your site and give it a php extension: http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/cordump_sweeper.txt Then add it as an include to one of your files. It will look for ANY files on your site with core in the name and delete them.
soerganda Posted January 13, 2012 Author Posted January 13, 2012 @byron, Your link is eror 404 not found, bro.
Byron Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Sorry about that. Try the link now. I accidently deleted the file when I ran my sweeper script because I named it core with an e insted of cor, lol.
Piotr GRD Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Don't you afraid that some other people may have files named .*core.*, too? ; )I would use more detailed regular expression, ie.: ^core\.[0-9]+$
Byron Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 @Piotr GRD: Your right and thanks for the suggestion. Fixed with Piotr GRD suggestion:http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/cordump_sweeper.txt
soerganda Posted January 14, 2012 Author Posted January 14, 2012 thanks to everyone who has helped me
Tjoene Posted January 14, 2012 Posted January 14, 2012 Glad your problem got solved! Please spare a few minutes to take our brief survey: http://feedback.heliohost.org/ Your participation in this survey is greatly appreciated.
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