Sunday, April 30, 2017

Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 05:28:33PM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:21:25PM +0900, Bryan Linton wrote:
> > On 2017-04-29 15:48:51, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@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
>

That's great. I was traveling a few months ago and I had a box of
hard drives I was using stolen. Temporarily, I really need to not have
any of those huge core files eating up space.
Saddest thing is I know they probably just opened the box and threw them
away.

Chris Bennett

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