On May 26, 2025 2:17:05 AM GMT+02:00, LWS <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, I would like to ask if it is normal that on a desktop with 8 giga I >have continuous browser crashes. This happens on both firefox and chromium. >In the past I had the same problems when I used openbsd as a virtual >machine on a freebsd machine. And so I had justified it thinking that it >depended on virtualization. Now instead I am on a physical machine and I >have the same problems. >It is not the entire browser that crashes but only the tab. Let's say I >have about 20 or 30 crashes daily. I had asked the same question on reddit >and they advised me to modify the /etc/login.conf file to widen the memory >limits. But this measure did not produce any results. Now login.conf should >be the default after upgrade to 7.7 >The machine is an old fujitsu machine with 8 giga from 2018. > >To be precise, the machine is the following: >https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=1ba76bf7e5 >That is, I was the one who uploaded that data even though I am now on >openbsd 7.7. But the package list and everything else is my machine. > >My "id" is this: >uid=1000(my_user) gid=1000(my_user) groups=1000(my_user), 0(wheel), >20(staff) > >and the following is staff on login.conf >staff:\ >:datasize-cur=1536M:\ >:datasize-max=infinity:\ >:maxproc-max=512:\ >:maxproc-cur=256:\ >:ignorenologin:\ >:requirehome@:\ >:tc=default: > >Thank you for any help. >lws.
Hi, you need not to be in the "staff" *group* but in the "staff" *class* : # usermod -L staff my_user Hope that helps Sylvain Saboua
