I am also going to try to raise the limit to 2G. I agree with Scott that
maybe the default limit should be raised. There are probably less
people needing to lower it than those needing to raise it.
In case the default limit will not be raised I hope you put a install
message shown by pkg_add (as is happening with Python, for example) so
people will get aware that having just 512M will make it to crash.
From Scott's report, it sounds like he had exactly the same problem as
me. I worked around the problem by switching browser, but a useful
message at install time to raise the limit would have been very helpful.
That message could also contain information about solving problem with
horizontal stripes in pictures. Then we do not scare away newcomers.
On 07/24/13 15:47, Scott McEachern wrote:
On 07/24/13 05:48, James Griffin wrote:
The crashes i've experiebced have been only since i installed some
extensions/plugins from Mozilla. I've removed them and the browser is
much better again. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this. my
ulimit -d is: 524288 I will increase it to to test and see if it
helps. I have to say, though, i've been using FF on -current since
last December and it's been pretty good. Crashes have been few and
only rencently.
I used to have firefox crash on a daily basis, usually when I opened
too many tabs in sites like IMDb, or especially, gmail. Without fail,
opening a gmail tab would crash ffx and after that it wouldn't crash
right away, but became painful to use.
I also run about 14 addons, including adblockplus, noscript, ghostery,
requestpolicy, etc.
That was with a stock data size of 512M.
Then one day, a long time ago, someone else complained of ffx crashes
and landry@, again, asked what happens with a data size of 2G?
I tried it, and miracle of miracles, no more ffx crashes. Gmail works
just fine, I could open IMDb tabs to my heart's content, plus a bunch
of others. I currently have about 20 tabs open in ffx to various
sites (including gmail and IMDb), plus all my addons running, and I
don't remember the last time ffx crashed on me.
For me, the real question is whether the default user data size
shouldn't be increased in this day and age of modern ("bloated", if
you will) browsers.
PS: Running a relatively-recent -current (Jul 11) on amd64 w/ ffx v22.0.
