Huge 50GB+ kernel dump files being generated in temp

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These folders/files keep appearing and I keep having to delete them. They are constantly sucking away all my storage space - what's going on?

Tried opening in Event Viewer & nothing shows up:

Tried converting the log and still nothing shows but log gets even more massive:

Those files are Windows event logs, what events, are contained within them? — Ramhound, Commented Sep 3, 2019 at 23:13
How do you suggest reading them? Are you suggesting to open the 20GB file with notepad? — Enigma, Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 14:50
Egigma - Open Event Viewer | Action | Open Saved Log and go from there to point to one of the ETL files. I believe EV will only display what you are looking at and not all data at once as notepad.exe does or whatever. — Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style, Commented Sep 5, 2019 at 19:28
Tried doing that & nothing is showing up. I have two options; view log as is or convert it. Converting it does a x7 expansion on the already massive size. — Enigma, Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 14:47

Enigma · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-08 17:15:54Z

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The culprit was/is the Visual Studio 2019 CPU & Memory diagnostic component. After turning this off, the massive log files stopped being generated.

answered Nov 8, 2019 at 17:15

Enigma

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