Dec
24
2015
A couple of weeks after I launched a new blog, I noticed four ‘core’ files named core.2801, core.4065 etc. in its directories. The files seemed harmless, but had rather large size (several megabytes).
What are core dump files?
A quick Google search turned up a lot of complicated pages explaining the problem, but none that could actually suggest a fix.
A web developer suggested that the core files were a result of lots of buffer being dumped. This is typical of excessive resource usage and/or error reporting. Core dumps contain reports of working memory of a software when it has crashed. In short, core dump files are caused by a crashing software component. Instead of trying to get rid of core files, you should worry about what caused these errors.
You can safely delete these files. Although there is GDB to open and analyze core files, not many would actually understand anything. WordPress is tested thoroughly before each release, hence it is unlikely a fault caused by WP.
Prevent core dump files
You can delete core files without any worry – it does not contain data useful to anyone but developers and hosting company itself.
Incompatibilities arising out of Apache, MySQL, PHP etc could cause core dumps. Google version number of these software along with the terms “incompatibility WordPress”.
If possible, use only plugins written by experienced developers. New developers may not adhere to the best coding practices. A poorly coded plugin could cause core dumps.
Upgrade WordPress plugins to the latest version. Regarding the problem on the new blog, I found that I had uploaded a older versions of a couple of plugins.
Disable plugins. You can start out by disabling all the heavy plugins and enabling them one by one, during which time you should watch blog directory, wp-admin etc. for core files. If a plugin does not trigger core files, activate another and test. Repeat the process until all plugins have been activated or the culprit has been found.
Plugins that send large amounts of data may also cause this. For example, some idiots keep trying to brute force my admin login and I had it set to send an email on all failed logins. I had to install a new plugin because it was sending out so many emails it hit the max limit on my hosting service. The new plugin restricted the login attempts to 5 and then blocks them after that. This solved my problem, I just had to go delete all the .core files dumped into my folder.
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Dec
4
2015
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Dec
4
2015
By Nate Jackson · Dec. 4, 2015
Facts are stubborn things. In the wake of the Islamist attack in San Bernardino, Barack Obama trotted out the usual blame-the-gun rhetoric: “We have a pattern of mass shootings in this country with no parallel anywhere else in the world.” That was after he claimed in a Tuesday press conference (in Paris, of all places), “This just doesn’t happen in other countries.” Repeat, ad nauseum. But is it really true? This doesn’t happen in the Middle East, Africa and Asia? As you might guess whenever Obama opens his mouth, no, it’s not true. The U.S. is pretty much in the middle of the pack for mass murder committed with firearms, both in the frequency and death rate. In fact, according to gun researcher John Lott, “In just 2015, France suffered more casualties — killings and injuries — from mass public shootings than the U.S. has suffered during Obama’s entire presidency (508 to 424).”
As for the number of mass shooting incidents in the U.S., we’ve noted before that the Leftmedia uses completely BS statistics collected by anti-gun fanatics. How inflated are those numbers? The Mass Shooting Tracker website claims the San Bernardino attack was the 355th “mass shooting” this year, but its deliberately inflated definition includes, for example, non-fatal incidents with pellet guns and they count attackers in the number shot, dead or not. The Congressional Research Service, on the other hand, still defines “mass killing” widely — “three or more killings in a single incident” — and even then there were 317 mass shootings … from 1999 to 2013. That also doesn’t distinguish between a random public mass murder and a man killing his wife and in-laws. Overall, firearms-related homicides have dropped dramatically over the last two decades, all while gun ownership has greatly increased.
So what do Democrats do? Propose the same old “universal background checks” idea that would do nothing to stop the two San Bernardino terrorists — or most other deranged killers. They want to ban “assault rifles,” too, though California law is already especially strict on this. And there are reports that the couple modified at least one rifle in an attempt to make it fully automatic. Such modification is illegal in all states, but by all means let’s make it super illegal this time. Oh, and using any kind of firearm to murder people is illegal everywhere, too, but that doesn’t ever seem to stop murderous psychos.
Meanwhile, leftists go out of their way to shame those who pray for the victims. Tolerance, indeed, and facts be damned along the way.
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Dec
4
2015
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