Hi Dave, ulimit seems to be a shell function and, when I run it I get the message "unlimited".
The option -v is not regognized and apropos does not show anything... Any hint? Thanks | >>> Dave J. Vanecek (mar...@pennswoods.net): | On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:26:09PM +0200, Pau wrote: | > Hi, | > | > this is 5.3 GENERIC.MP#12 amd64 with 8G RAM, on a thinpad x220. | > | > I have continuous firefox crashes. | > | > As soon as I have more than 2-3 tabs open, it looks as if firefox | > consumed a lot of memory, which leads to a freeze in firefox and then | > a crash. I have blocking pop up enabled and only an addon, adblock. In | > spite of the lack of ads and popping up windows, the cpu goes up to | > ~77% and that makes firefox crash. | > | > I have observed a similar behaviour with seamoneky and midori, which | > might be normal, since they are based on gecko. | > | > The question is whether this is normal or not, and what to do. I | > remember reading something related to crashes on firefox and how to | > avoid that by creating another profile after I installed firefox, but | > I do not know where to find that information anymore. | > | > firefox3.6 seems to behave better, but I am wondering about security. | > It's a rather old version (current one is 21). Why is 3.6 kept and are | > any security holes been taken care of? | | It's memory usage... you're not exhausting your machine's memory, | just the user's allocation. Try jacking it up with ulimit. | I don't have an Open machine powered on right now (Shock! Awe!) | but I think you want to do something like | | ulimit -v 0 | | That assumes that 0 = "no limit". Then watch firefox with ps or top. | It's such a *pig*. | | There is probably somewhere in /etc that you need to go to set this | up, I fergit now. | | Dave | | _______________________________________________ | Openbsd-newbies mailing list | Openbsd-newbies@sfobug.theapt.org | http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies -- MPI Grav. Physics (Albert Einstein Inst.) * +49-331-567-{tel:7306,fax:7298} Am Muehlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam * http://members.aei.mpg.de/amaro-seoane _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list Openbsd-newbies@sfobug.theapt.org http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
