[17641] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape coredump can cause IRIX panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Mar 9 11:55:47 2000
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:55:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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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
>
>
