Temp files sc.kernel.X.etl are generated weekly and take over several dozen of gigaoctets

[EDIT : Opened the files in the event logger]

It seems that the error are logged really often : Error 15003 seems to be a driver error, though no yellow ! shows up in the peripheral manager.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name="" Guid="{ce1dbfb4-137e-4da6-87b0-3f59aa102cbc}" /> 
  <EventID>0</EventID> 
  <Version>2</Version> 
  <Level>0</Level> 
  <Task>0</Task> 
  <Opcode>46</Opcode> 
  <Keywords>0x0</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-05-13T20:31:48.544092000Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>96360642</EventRecordID> 
  <Correlation /> 
  <Execution ProcessID="4294967295" ThreadID="4294967295" ProcessorID="0" KernelTime="0" UserTime="0" /> 
  <Channel /> 
  <Computer>XXXXXXXX</Computer> 
  <Security /> 
  </System>
- <ProcessingErrorData>
  <ErrorCode>15003</ErrorCode> 
  <DataItemName /> 
  <EventPayload>4EAA0F0C00000000FC31000001005000</EventPayload> 
  </ProcessingErrorData>
  </Event>

[Initial post]

My main hard drive gets saturated weekly and I have to delete those files manually. Does somebody know where it comes from ?

Software I use on a daily basis : Photoshop, Unity3D, Chrome, Visual studio, Visual code and ConEmu

Temps files are all named sc.kernel.[Number].etl didn't find anything on the subject.

I scanned the computer with windows defender as well, no results.

StackHola

Posted 2018-05-13T21:03:43.593

Reputation: 101

What Windows version are you using? – fixer1234 – 2018-05-13T21:10:16.300

1.etl files are Windows event log files. If you open one of them with event log viewer, what kind of messages does it contain? – Tilman Schmidt – 2018-05-13T22:57:21.603

I'm using windows 10 x64 Pro. Also they don't get cleaned up with disk tools utility. I'm trying @TilmanSchmidt suggestion. – StackHola – 2018-05-14T08:03:13.033

I opened the file in the event log viewer, and edited my post. – StackHola – 2018-05-14T10:23:48.903

GUID {ce1dbfb4-137e-4da6-87b0-3f59aa102cbc} is PerfInfo according to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364085%28v=vs.85%29.aspx so it seems this is related to performance counters. IMHO that makes Visual Studio the most probable culprit.

– Tilman Schmidt – 2018-05-15T22:52:27.617

Temp files sc.kernel.X.etl are generated weekly and take over several dozen of gigaoctets

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