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 <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. > > > > 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
