Large *STMF named Core after install

[Former Member]

We have been installing BI 3.5 systems on a 570 and have noticed very large files named Core in the path /usr/sap/BIX/DVEBMGS50/work/. Are they core dumps from errors during the install? The systems have been up and running for months now so can the Core files be deleted? They are too large to read and nothing has been written to them since the install.

TIA,

Margie Teppo

Perrigo

[christian_bartels · Accepted solution]

If the SAP kernel gets an error, it can produce a "core dump" in the work directory. This is only needed if you want to debug the cause of the error. Usually the core dump would come together with entries in the developer trace file, and the system log would notice that a work process got restarted after an error.

We had some cases, where stoping the SAP instance would produce core dumps, which did not cause much harm because the system was ended anyway.

So if you don't see real errors and don't want to debug these core dumps, you can safely delete the files (even while SAP is up).

Regards,

Christian Bartels.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I've already seen this problem with BI 3.5 on SunOs. As this problem appears only once, I've just deleted the file.

But if this file appears once again, you should create a customer message to SAP.

Hope this could help !

Seb.