From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 17:33:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5E106566C for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:33:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4968FC0A for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17988 invoked by uid 399); 18 Jan 2010 17:33:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 18 Jan 2010 17:33:28 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B549B67.90206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:33:27 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100114 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <201001180107.o0I17jbS088321@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201001180107.o0I17jbS088321@fire.js.berklix.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limits for run away Firefox ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:33:29 -0000 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 -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso