Disabling Core Dumps in cPanel

I recently found a (cPanel) server was generating over 100Gb of core dumps every time a bad PHP script died or Apache died. Writing these generally useless (who actually debugs these on a live web server) to disk is a pointless waste of disk I/O, especially in a VPS environment. Here is two methods of disabling core dumps;cPanel/WHM Login to WHM Select ‘Tweak Settings’ Search for ‘core’ Turn ‘Generate core dumps’ off. Linux I usually do this on cPanel servers also, just to be double sure! 1. Disable core dumps for all users. Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and check that * hard core 0 exists 2. Disable core dumps for setuid programs echo 'fs.suid_dumpable = 0' >> /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p 3. Finally, set...

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