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core.xxx files?
I've only ever noticed this on LinksSQL installations.. but I keep seeing file names like;

core.1234
core.3234
core.234

What exactly are these? They are about 5-25Mb in size.. so not exactly small files. I'm only on dialup at the moment.. so can't ust download the files to have a look :(

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Re: [Andy] core.xxx files? In reply to
Are they core dumps from mysql dying?
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Re: [afinlr] core.xxx files? In reply to
I have no idea :-/ They are located in the LSQL admin folder....

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Re: [Andy] core.xxx files? In reply to
What type of alternate programs are you running on your server? When you get a core.1234, the 1234 is a thread id containing the stack trace of the application when it crashed, usually associated with a segmentation fault or a core dump, just depends on the application...

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Re: [Dinky] core.xxx files? In reply to
I'm not really sure. It just seems to be LSQL, as the files are located in the admin folder. When I get a bit of free time, I'm going to 'tail' and 'head' this file, to see what other kind of info it can/will give me.

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Re: [Andy] core.xxx files? In reply to
I would probably check it out sooner, it's definintely a sign of something going wrong... The last time I had something like this, it filled up my error logs so quickly it crashed the server...
Good luck...

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Re: [Dinky] core.xxx files? In reply to
Yeah, the problem is that I removed these files yesterday. Spose its just a matter of waiting until they apear again, and then checking out where they are coming from :-/

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Re: [Andy] core.xxx files? In reply to
Ah, I found where these files are coming from now :)

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bash-2.05a$ wget http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/content.rdf.u8.gz
--06:23:31-- http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/content.rdf.u8.gz
=> `content.rdf.u8.gz'
Resolving rdf.dmoz.org... done.
Connecting to rdf.dmoz.org[207.200.81.147]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 257,317,862 [text/plain]

40% [================================> ] 104,834,260 599.56K/s ETA 04:08

File size limit exceeded (core dumped)

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It seems that when a 'wget' call fails (for whatever reason), it dumps stuff to the core.xxx files. Ah well, at least I know where they come from now :)

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Re: [Andy] core.xxx files? In reply to
Core dumps are bad - there could be an underlying problem somewhere.

The "stuff" (as you put it) that gets dumped is data such as stack traces, stack frames and data to help debug the cause of the fault.