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Re: Why firefox crashes [Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]



On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:21:25PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:49:07PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
> > >  past, and Firefox completed installation and ran on only on one of three
> > >  systems. I don't understand what is so fragile in it, but it happens to 
> > > be
> > >  that fragile.
> 
> Firefox consumes a ton of file descriptors without raising its descriptor
> limit. Rather than print an error or raise the limit, it crashes when it
> runs out. We raised the default descriptor limit for 5.0. Since that change
> firefox has not crashed on me once.

It also helps that the datasize limit is virtually meaningless in 5.0.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.

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