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  • You don't want to disable the core dumps. You want to look for the cause of the core dumping and prevent the problem from occurring. It seems likely that you have php misconfigured, conflicting modules, or something along those lines. Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 16:28
  • > You don't want to disable the core dumps. Yes you do. When core dumps drop massive 20GB files on the disk and take up all the space as well as file the FS with noise in the current dir, possibly even causing a data leak (although rare), you want the damned thing turned off. Especially when loads of NIX file systems GET CORRUPT or b0rked when space fills up! IE, XFS, BTRFS, etc. It's all fun and games until your processes use some sizable amount of RAM, IE, processing big data sets. Nodejs is very nasty for example because it segfaults when out of RAM. Commented Jan 9, 2020 at 11:11
  • Dumping all the RAM to disk isn't clever, it's like hibernating, used huge amount of space and IO. Commented Jan 9, 2020 at 11:16