giant kcore file

[cheikkila]

I've read all about this and understand that kcore is a virtual file that isn't supposed to take up any real disk space. BUT on one of my servers, it appears to be doing just that:

Server A (SLES 10 SP2)
serverA:~ # ls -l /proc/kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 6979325952 Nov 2 14:17 /proc/kcore
serverA:~ # du -sh /proc/kcore
6.6G /proc/kcore

Server B (OpenSUSE 10.3)
serverB:~ # ls -l /proc/kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 939528192 Nov 2 14:20 /proc/kcore
serverB:~ # du -sh /proc/kcore
0 /proc/kcore (this is what I'd expect from both)

Since /var/lib/ntp/proc/kcore is a link to /proc/kcore, server A's /var partition is filling up since it thinks that 6.6GB is taken up by the /var/lib/ntp/proc/kcore file.

I've restarted mysql (suggested in the post above, although I didn't think that would have anything to do with it), and restarted ntp, with no effect.

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Christina