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Rahul P
Rahul P

Reputation: 2663

What are the core.xxxxx files created by tensorflow?

I've been using Tensorflow 2.0 in Jupyter Lab and I notice that there are files created called core.xxxxx such as :

core.18564
core.21528
core.28128

and more in the same naming convention format.

I've tried to open them in an editor (VI) and when I do my editor crashes (for now at least). These files are between 7 GB to 37 GB each (!!!)

Question: What are these files and what is their purpose?

Note: I've looked on Stackoverflow and to the best of my knowledge, I can't seem to find the answer here. I apologize if this turns out to be a duplicate.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3362

Answers (1)

William D. Irons
William D. Irons

Reputation: 2384

These are linux core dump files because the program is crashing for some unknown reason.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump for more info.

The number in the file name is process id that created the core file.

They can be removed to recover disk space.

Upvotes: 4

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