limits for run away Firefox ?

[Fabian Keil]

"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2009 at kiwi-computer.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:43PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > On 01/18/10 11:29, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > Doug Barton wrote:
> > >  > 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
> > > 
> > > I think not generating a core dump at all is better than
> > > writing 4 GB to /dev/null.
> > 
> > A) The method I proposed is useful for other things too, and as you
> > pointed out it can sometimes be difficult to track down all the ways a
> > given thing is started.
> 
> What about just adding the limit command to the /usr/local/bin/firefox
> script?  That would guarantee any instantiation of firefox wouldn't dump
> core.

Until the next update ...

> > B) If we're going to be snarky, it would be far better if it didn't
> > need to dump core in the first place. :)
> 
> I don't think that Oliver was at all snarky.  He was merely suggesting a
> solution which would prevent the core file from being generated at all;
> the OP was tired of the extra time spent and Oliver's suggestion would
> certainly reduce this time.
> 
> The symlink seems to hackish to me, although I've had to use it often in
> other situations.  And in some cases the culprit would unlink(2) it
> first, so I've had to "chflags noschg" it, which works better than
> "chmod 000" (if the FS supports it).
> 
> But I agree that it would be nice to prevent ffox from segfaulting;
> unfortunately this is one of those apps which segfaults a lot (for me at
> least).  =)

I get a lot less segfaults since I disabled ogg support (which never
worked for me anyway): about:config -> media.ogg.enabled = false

Fabian
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