How to stop core file generation
A core file records memmory image of running process.when a php process is killed, apache creates core files under your account.These core files takes too much of space on server.There is no harm on deleting these files.You cabn get rid off these core files by modifiying the httpd start up file.
Vi /etc/init.d/httpd
Search for ulimit lines ex:
ulimit -n 1024
ulimit -n 4096
ulimit -n 8192
ulimit -n 16384
Please add ulimit -c 0 to the end.So its looks like
ulimit -n 16384
ulimit -c 0
Save the changes and restart apache service.
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