Hello, I have a wordpress blog, with the alst version installed. For my surprise I am getting files created at the root folder of my blog folder. These files are of the type: core.1222, core.3254 , core.****, core.**** I'm talking about many files that I do not transfer via ftp! Each of this files has 43 megas of size more less! Why is that?! How can I fix this?
Those are linux memory dump files. Thats all I know. You probably have something wrong with your server. Its probably something to do with PHP.
I have a DreamHost account and often see these kinds of dummy files when I SSH to my server. Don't know how they've created but I'm sure it's related to heavy burden on the server, which is a result of greedy overselling
Hi, Core dump files are generated when a program on linux crashes. In your case this is probably php. Nothing to do with overselling.
But when you say it might be php, are you talking about php of my blog or should I contact my host to take a look at the problem?
Hi, php code shouldn't be able to cause php/apache to crash (ideally) so yeah I would take it up with dreamhost to see what they think about the problem as I would guess at it being something with the httpd or php implementation.