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[SOLVED - SORT OF] Disk Space being eaten up

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:22 am
by David_Geoffrey
Hi

I hope this is the right forum, please forgive me if I am in the wrong place :-)

My disk space is filling up fast on my site, and the cause seems to be some sort of log or dump file being generated two or three times a week - although sometimes twice in quick succession. THey are all called core. followed by a 5 digit number.

I guess my questions are
1) Any ideas what is causing this and how I can stop them ?
2) Is it OK to delete them?

Thanks in advance for any help

DG

The site information is as follows

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max_upload_size: 2000000
default_upload_permission: 664
assume_mod_rewrite: false
page_extension:
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Php Information:

phpversion: 5.2.4
md5_function: On (True)
gd_version: 2
tempnam_function: On (True)
magic_quotes_runtime: Off (False)
memory_limit: 32M
max_execution_time: 120
safe_mode: Off (False)
session_save_path: /tmp (1777)


Server Information:

Server Api: cgi
Server Db Type: MySQL (mysql)
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Re: Disk Space being eaten up

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:19 am
by Dee
Those are core dumps of something (probably the webserver process) crashing on the server.

There are some forum posts from last year where people had this problem due to a bug in ZendOptimizer.


Kind regards,
D

Re: Disk Space being eaten up

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:38 am
by David_Geoffrey
Hi Dee

Thanks for the reply and the links - I did try searching on the forum before I posted - honest!  :-[

Looking at the other thread, sounds like there is no problem in deleting these; and I shall have to do some investigation what might be causing them. Obviously I probably need to upgrade to latest cms version, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment

Thanks again - I shall leave it not marked solved just for the moment in case anyone else has something to add now done
Cheers
DG