DoctorKaos Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 What are those huge (often over 100MB) core.x... files in the /root directory, and can they be deleted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Core files are usually files generated when there is a crash of a program, server, etc. I am not going to be the one to tell you that it can be safely deleted, though. Maybe go to http://google.com/linux and search with the name of the file in question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 yeah ... just delete them ... it a core dump file ... just as steve says ... when something crashes it creates those files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 If you want to get rid of those core files, edit the file /etc/profile with something like this: [ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -S -c 0 &> /dev/null or simply ulimit -c 0 By default mandrake sets only root to be able to get core dumps (memory dump of a program that failed). But if you are not interested on that info, just get rid of it as I said before ("help ulimit" for more info) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorKaos Posted January 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Thanks all. Galeon has been crashing a lot recently. But that's my fault, not Galeon's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Internet web browsers like mozilla, galeon, etc. are famous for causing such core dumps.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorKaos Posted January 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 I don't know whether this was the right way to solve the problem, but with Apache, MySQL, etc... going, I raised my ram to half a gig. Since then, nomo crashee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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