On 01/18/10 11:29, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> > On 01/17/10 17:07, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > > Hi hackers
> > > I'm tired of my X server occasionaly freezing, swap thrasing, & firefox
> dumps:
> > > 4,346,937,344 ~/firefox-bin.core
> > > so as a temporary cludge I ran
> > > touch ~/firefox-bin.core ; chmod 000 ~/firefox-bin.core
> >
> > Sorry I don't have a solution to your actual problem, but a better way
> > to deal with this is to do: ln -s /dev/null ~/firefox-bin.core
>
> I think not generating a core dump at all is better than
> writing 4 GB to /dev/null.
A) The method I proposed is useful for other things too, and as you
pointed out it can sometimes be difficult to track down all the ways a
given thing is started.
B) If we're going to be snarky, it would be far better if it didn't need
to dump core in the first place. :)
Doug
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