"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2...@kiwi-computer.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:43PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > 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. > > What about just adding the limit command to the /usr/local/bin/firefox > script? That would guarantee any instantiation of firefox wouldn't dump > core. Until the next update ... > > 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. :) > > I don't think that Oliver was at all snarky. He was merely suggesting a > solution which would prevent the core file from being generated at all; > the OP was tired of the extra time spent and Oliver's suggestion would > certainly reduce this time. > > The symlink seems to hackish to me, although I've had to use it often in > other situations. And in some cases the culprit would unlink(2) it > first, so I've had to "chflags noschg" it, which works better than > "chmod 000" (if the FS supports it). > > But I agree that it would be nice to prevent ffox from segfaulting; > unfortunately this is one of those apps which segfaults a lot (for me at > least). =) I get a lot less segfaults since I disabled ogg support (which never worked for me anyway): about:config -> media.ogg.enabled = false Fabian
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