/core taking over 3GB of space

It\'s a single file \"core\" within your root partition? A core dump file is basically a dump of memory when perl fails on executing a particular script... it\'s the output. At least on redhat systems that is always the case, as far as I know.

I have never seen a core file 3 Gigs.... or anywhere even close. I would first say it would be \"safe to remove\"...... but then again I have never seen a 3 GB core file spawned.

:D Perhaps someone else has better experience/knowledge on this particular topic, I would definitely research further if I were you.

 

Actually come to think of it I think that can be caused by \"any\" program on a linux-type system. Did any of your vital services crash hard in the past day or so? Anything strange going on?

Perhaps runnings \"strings\" on the core file would be of use but then again you probably would take the machine down if you tried that on a file 3 GB (if it is actually a single file?).....

be careful.

 

You can find out what created it by running file on ie. Here is a sample, I did killall -4 cpaneld to force cpaneld to crash and did file on the core file

# file /usr/local/cpanel/base/core
/usr/local/cpanel/base/core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of \'cpaneld\' (signal 4), Intel 80386, version 1

core files are quite safe to delete. If you don\'t want your system to create core file you could put ulimit -c 0 in your rc.sysinit

 

WHM will take a while to update, and recognise space usage is not at 83%...