Hi Chris, Chris Bennett wrote on Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 07:10:05AM -0500:
> Firefox [...] takes a long period to actually finish crashing It dumps core. That takes a long time because firefox tends to waste huge amounts of memory, and it's favourite pretext for crashing is ENOMEM, see errno(2), so especially at the time when it finally crashes, the core is often huge. schwarze@isnote $ cd schwarze@isnote $ ll *core -rw------- 1 schwarze schwarze 2044448248 Apr 19 21:03 firefox.core -rw------- 1 schwarze schwarze 4464720 Apr 18 16:48 man.core -rw------- 1 schwarze schwarze 488064 Feb 10 17:45 mandoc.core Yes, that core file over there is 2 GB. Yours, Ingo
