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Subject: Re: limits for run away Firefox ?
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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


hth,

Doug

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