I did a search on this issue but couldn't find the problem.
The thing is that drupal seems to be creating a file in my site's main directory called core.10011 and many more all in the trend of core.*
Most of them have 0kb space they use, but a number of them use about 10 to 19 mb of space.
Any idea why this is and how to solve it?

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jhriggs’s picture

jhriggs commented

You will probably need to take this up with your host. Drupal is not (directly) creating those files. It sounds as if PHP is crashing. It is the operating system that is dumping a core file when it happens.

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Eagle-i commented

well, i have different sites installed on the same hosting company, but this is the only install that gives me this problem.

jhriggs’s picture

jhriggs commented

Do you have modules enabled on this site that are not enabled on the others? Maybe PHP is running out of memory on this site because it is loading more modules?

Eagle-i’s picture

Eagle-i commented

the only difference is image.module installed extra. That's it.

i check my error log through cpanel and this is what it says:

Premature end of script headers: /home/myusername/public_html/my-addon-domain/index.php

??

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menesis commented

You probably use imagemagick image handler which executes "convert" program, and it crashes, leaving a core file. You can disable core dumps with ulimit -c 0, but the proper way would be to determine why it crashes at all. Try resizing images with convert on command line, see if it crashes. Upgrade, reinstall. Use a different image handler, like imlib2.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

Seems very likely, closing.

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