If you don't use core files for debugging, it's probably wise to turn them
off. See the ulimit builtin from BASH, and the entry in /etc/profile. Note that the default is no core files, and the profile entry turns them
on for root, with a limit of 1,000,000x1024 bytes!! With a 5G /, you are
lucky it was only 7.8M, instead of closer to the nearly a gig limit!
Thanks. I commented it out in /etc/profile, viz:
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files # [ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1
and look forward to no further problem (fingers crossed :-) ).
I cannot decode your mention of bash�s ulimit command into some desirable action (no man info found).
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