Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

Hi Chris,

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, and it's favourite pretext
for crashing is ENOMEM, see errno(2), so especially at the
time when it finally crashes, the core is often huge.

schwarze@isnote $ cd
schwarze@isnote $ ll *core
-rw------- 1 schwarze schwarze 2044448248 Apr 19 21:03 firefox.core
-rw------- 1 schwarze schwarze 4464720 Apr 18 16:48 man.core
-rw------- 1 schwarze schwarze 488064 Feb 10 17:45 mandoc.core

Yes, that core file over there is 2 GB.

Yours,
Ingo