On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:21:25PM +0900, Bryan Linton wrote: > On 2017-04-29 15:48:51, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > > > > Chris Bennett wrote on Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 07:10:05AM -0500: > > > >> Firefox [...] takes a long period to actually finish crashing > > > > It dumps core. That takes a long time because firefox tends > > to waste huge amounts of memory [...] > > > > One hack I've done when I don't care about actually getting or > using a corefile from large programs is to do the following: > > # rm progname.core > # touch progname.core > # chflags uchg progname.core > > Of course, I'd only recommend doing so if one is absolutely > certain they don't want a corefile from said program ever again, > and will remember to unset that flag should they ever change their > mind. >
If you want to disable core dump for a program, you could (should ?) configure your RLIMIT_CORE to 0. $ ulimit -c 0 $ firefox -- Sebastien Marie
