[lingo]

Don't know if it's anything to do with the changes, but i am using smsimple cms files (php) for a site. Never had a problem before, but it seems that as of today I am getting large (about 5mb) 'core' files dumped on the root of that site. These happen everytime a page is refreshed or a new link clicked!!

It kinda builds up quick and fills that account!!

Any reason why i should be getting masses of core files? and any way to stop it.

...im deleting these files every 10mins to stop it overflowing!!

Tim

[Kieran]

I have just noticed these on one of my accounts too; I'm not sure what it is in particular that is causing them to be created. I have written a quick php script to purge them and have it on standby to run as a cron job every 10 minutes if any more appear. While I hoped purging them would allow me to start uploading/writing to files again (because the core files had pushed me over quota) sadly it did not.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Kieran

PHPsuexec changes have killed php file uploads and file changes completely on delta. Directories can be chmod'ed to 755 or 777 and in both cases they are most definitely not writable

I'm just posting this here in case it gets read before my ticket or in case anyone else is having the same problems and wants to discuss.

Kieran,

I've just installed a test gallery and Joomla site - uploads worked fine on both.

However, there are alot of core dumps.. After looking into this - Zend appears not to be well. We had to re-install it using the /scripts/installzend script provided by cPanel - however, after looking around Google, there appear to be alot of problems with the core dumps.

We are on the case of this now, please bear with us.

[Kieran]

Thanks for looking into this

I'm pleased to see that the reply when I viewed the thread was to do with Zend as I got the following in my e-mail as the reply to this thread and was about to come on here to defend my code

Originally Posted by XILO-Tom

However, your code seems abit patchy.

You have alot of core.* files in your web directory which would indiciate that something is not coded properly, so it bombs out and then dumps the core as far as it had gotten.

[Tom]

Doh...

I honestly thought it was until I had a look elsewhere. Apologies for pointing the finger.

[Kieran]

No problem - its not always obvious what is causing any problem.

I think however that we can blame all the problems I have reported in tickets and forums tonight on the Zend/core files issue. My busy sites are generating core files like no tomorrow and simply causing my space to fill up. This blocks e-mails from being stored and also uploads (luckily databases are still accepting data otherwise I'd be in big trouble, lol).

I'm now working out all the places they are being placed and getting some hefty deletion crons setup at regular intervals

[Kieran]

The strategy is working; core files are biting the dust

Only site where it is ineffective is www.routertech.org The files are simply too large and being generated too frequently for a regular cron to cope with! lol

[lingo]

Originally Posted by Kieran

... I have written a quick php script to purge them and have it on standby to run as a cron job every 10 minutes if any more appear. ..

Any chance of a copy of the script Kieran? I might need it myself until things are resolved (may need a hand wetting up a cron job too - not really done that before!!)

Cheers

Tim

[Tom]

Tim,

We are going to delete all core.* files every 5 minutes shortly.

Zend appears to be the problem and we are just investigating now.

[lingo]

Originally Posted by XILO-Tom

Tim,

We are going to delete all core.* files every 5 minutes shortly..

Thanks Tom! That means I can go to bed tonight!!

Hope you manage to get things sorted.

Cheers.