CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpwordpress
Joris G
Joris G

Reputation: 66

core.##### files in Wordpress root folder

There are several (4) core.##### (5 numbers, which seem to correspond to the Wordpress version) files, which I've never seen before in the root folder of my Wordpress installation.

They're all 110± MB in size, which makes me think they're just some kind of cached versions of Wordpress core that were downloaded at some point. The thing is that I don't want to leave 4x 110MB files in my root directory - is it safe to delete them?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1532

Answers (2)

webfan
webfan

Reputation: 109

These core.12345 files may contain an image of the current RAM memory of a crashed process. IMHO, this can happen e.g. if you try to catch an out of memory_limit error within an exception. I would like to now more about this error too.

Upvotes: 1

Lars Beck
Lars Beck

Reputation: 3584

These are core dumps, you should check your error logs, looks like one ore more server processes frequently crash.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions