That's a core dump. That means a program encountered an fatal error and dumped itself and its current state and memory to disk, so that is is possible (if you have access to the source of the program) to debug where the program was, and what it had in memory. The upper limit for the file size of a core dump is normally set in /etc/limits. > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Ben Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Montag, 6. August 2001 11:12 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: 800 Meg /bin/core file?? > > > Hi, > I was happily copying some directory structures from one machine to > another when my FTP client came across a file called 'core' in my > tomcat's bin directory. This file was (and is) 821,313,536 bytes. > Anyone have the slightest idea what this file is and how it would grow > so large? > Thanks in advance, > > Ben >
