No offense was implied, thus the smiley. ;)
Doug
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Oliver Fromme <o...@lurza.secnetix.de>
wrote:
Rick C. Petty 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.
Many users probably don't want any core dumps at all, so
disabling them completely would be the best and easiest
solution for them. This can be done globally (either with
the sysctl or via /etc/login.conf) or per-user via
~/.login_conf. Then you don't have to track down 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. :)
I don't think that Oliver was at all snarky.
The word "snarky" isn't even in my dictionary, so I can
only guess what it means.
Anyway, my suggestion was meant to be completely serious,
without any irony or other undertone. I'm not a native
English speaker, so maybe my words expressed a meaning
that wasn't intended. In that case please allow me to
apologize.
But I agree that it would be nice to prevent ffox from segfaulting;
Definitely. I agree, too. However, that's a lot more
difficult than preventing core dumps being written.
unfortunately this is one of those apps which segfaults a lot (for
me at
least). =)
One of the reasons why I prefer Opera. :)
Best regards
Oliver
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