Title: WordPress Causing Core Dumps Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # WordPress Causing Core Dumps * Resolved [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/) * Hi. * I am running wordpress, which I love by the way, and am running into a strange problem. Something is causing several core dumps per day, on the order of 200 or more. I have to delete them every three or four hours or they will fill up my account. Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this? I run wordpress on a few web sites, and some of them do it and some don’t. The only diffrence between them is which theme is used. The worst offender uses a modified Classic theme. I don’t think the problem is caused by plugins, because I have disabled them and still have the issue. Any advice would be greatly useful to me. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441555) * WordPress is not executable code, it cannot “core dump”. It’s an interpreted script, a core dump would indicate a problem with the interpreter, not the script. * Now, PHP could core dump, but if it does so, then I’d say there’s a deeper server issue at work. PHP is fairly solid. * Complain to your host. If they say it’s your script, then they are clueless and you need to find a new host. * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441584) * That sucks. I’ve been through this with them. Here is what they told me: * “We found the problem. Please upgrade your “Word Press” to the latest release. And please disable any plugins if you have any plugins enabled to check that they are not the cause of the problem.” * I was on the latest wordpress when I presented this problem to them, 2.4, and the plugins are not the issue. I don’t have this problem with any other blogging software but wordpress. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441585) * And do you have this problem after you disable plugins? * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441590) * Yes. Plus, it’s happened on more than one install, and the only plugins they had in common were Spam Karma, and Subscribe me. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441593) * Anything interesting in the apache error logs? * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441594) * A few broken php issues, but I fixed them days ago. I’ve also tried my best to validate the theme php, and everything looks OK. Could a problem with CSS cause a core dump? I’m not sure where they come from. * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441595) * I am, of course, underqualified. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441597) * I’ve never seen it happen, but that sure doesn’t mean much…. * To make sure I understand: If you change theme to default, the coredumps stop? If so, then you’re right in that we definitely need to be looking harder at that theme. * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441602) * I can say this: I have two sites running WordPress. One uses the modified Classic theme, the other Wuhan. The Wuhan generates a dump, maybe, once a week, the Classic gives me 200+ per day. Like 30 or 40 every three hours. I can try to run a default theme and see if it stops, but I haven’t tried it for very long due to the disruption it would impose on the site. I can totaly try it though if you think it would help. * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441604) * Thank you for helping me by the way. I have to go back to work soon, but I’ll chack back in a couple of hours. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441609) * Hmmph. Frankly, I’m rather stumped. * Does one site get a lot more traffic than the other? Both are on the same server? Apache or IIS? *nix or Windows? What version of PHP? * — I’m looking for things to search with 😉 * I know it’s a pain, but it would be interesting to try setting the blog that’s Modified Classic to Default for a few hours… * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441651) * I’ll give it a try till around 5 CST and let you know. * Answers to a few of your questions. * Does one site get a lot more traffic than the other? * Yes, the classic site gets more, but not in the amounts proportional to the dumps. * Both are on the same server? * Yes. * Apache or IIS? * Apache 1.3.34 (Unix) * *nix or Windows? * Lunix * What version of PHP? 4.1.1 * Thank you so much. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441654) * Hrmm, the PHP version might be the issue. I notice the [Requirements page](http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/) says 4.2 or higher. * I’m not enough of a php wonk to know what changed from 4.1.x to 4.2x+ to know if that’s actually the problem or not, but is an upgrade of PHP an option for ya? * Thread Starter [benjpip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjpip/) * (@benjpip) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441655) * I didn’t even think of that. My server is run by a company, and I’m not convinced that they will be receptive to updating their PHP just for me. Do you think an older version of wordpress would comply? * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-causing-core-dumps/#post-441658) * I’d try asking. 🙂 * If you can find 1.5.3 in SVN, that’s got some patches on it (equivalent to 2.0.1 or 2.0.2, forget which), but you’d still be missing a chunk of the security fixes that led up to 2.0.4. I’d hate to advocate that direction just from a security perspective. * PHP 4.1.1 is getting rather long in the tooth… surely they’d consider it? Or installing php5 cgi or something? 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