[support] Problems with 7.29 update

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What server platform are you on?

On 2014-07-26 07:10, Roger wrote:
> Hello
> I have just updated to Drupal 7.30 and the site seems faster than 7.29.
> I note that there are now 16 files I cannot explain in public_html 
> directory
> Names like core.338850, they are unreadable files.
> 
> What are these, what do they mean, can they be deleted, each is 16.5mb
> and a new one arrives when Drupal fails which it has done many times in
> 3 hours this evening.
> It takes 2 minutes to open views, 50 seconds to save a change. Cannot
> open modules list I get WSOD
> Drush from a terminal displays a huge list of stuff I do not 
> understand.
> 
> Help gratefully appreciated
> Roger