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Author barry
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Date 2018-11-12.17:57:32
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As we're beginning to roll out macOS 10.14 High Sierra, we're seeing an increase in core files inside /cores.  This can consume a ton of disk space if you have coredumps enabled.  I don't have a short reproducer yet, but we believe this is related to changes in macOS behavior around fork().  Here are some clues:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32499#issuecomment-341578864

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50168647/multiprocessing-causes-python-to-crash-and-gives-an-error-may-have-been-in-progr/52230415#52230415

http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2017/6/5/Objective-C_and_fork_in_macOS_1013.html
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