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Every time my civimail cron job runs it saves a big (40 meg) file of the form core.12345 in cdcivicrm/bin.

The job seems to run fine -- mails go out and there are no message in the output file.

Any ideas how to stop this annoying storage muncher?

/w.

Thank you.

In which file would this line go?

/w.

On mine it's /etc/sysconfig/ulimit, but typically it's in bashrc (either per user ~/.bashrc or globally /etc/bashrc) or else something like /etc/init.d/boot.local.

I'm working with Will B. on his systems, and I found the problem.  In sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin, there's a file called error_log (very important file!) which showed memory errors for many (not all) of our mail cron job runs.  The mail script was looking at the php.ini in /usr/local/lib (we have the php cli installed, so I could see the php.ini location by doing php --ini).  That php.ini had the default memory limit.  I upped the memory limit to 1024, and the core dumps stopped.