[3724] in Release_7.7_team
Re: netscape coredump can cause IRIX panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 30 14:08:04 2003
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:05:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, <bug-infoagents@mit.edu>,
<release-team@mit.edu>
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You bet. I will either do this or hand it to rbasch (who may already be
doing it).
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Now that limitting the coredumpsize to 0 is part of the default
> dotfiles, can we please remove it from the mozilla and netscape
> scripts? Some of us would like to get core dumps and it's annoying
> that "unlimit coredumpsize" is insufficient, instead one must use a
> custom mozilla wrapper.
>
> --jhawk
> p.s.: "mozilla 1.2.1 seems to core dump for me occasionally,
> but of course I can't tell you how or why or when."
>
>
> | I thought there was already a limit coredumpsize 0 in the wrapper script,
> | all platforms. I'll check and see; if not I'll add it.
> |
> | -Todd
> |
> | On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> |
> | >
> | > Hi Todd,
> | >
> | > We've discovered that IRIX has a bug that can cause a panic when
> | > programs run out of AFS try to coredump onto local disk. SGI is aware
> | > of the problem, but it will probably be a long time before they have a
> | > fix available. Since netscape is more prone to coredumping than a lot
> | > of things we'd appreciate it if you could add somethign to the
> | > netscape wrapper to limit coredumpsize to zero. Arguably this could
> | > be done for all platforms, since it's not like people around here are
> | > debugging the coredumps, but setting it up for IRIX should reduce the
> | > number of people getting hurt.
> | >
> | > Thanks,
> | > Jonathon
> | >
> | >
> |
> | --[17641]-- (pref = [17640], nref = [17654])
>
