On 2017-04-29 15:48:51, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@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.
--
Bryan
