Re: [suse-security] Reasons for a system to freeze?
I've had the same problem with several other programs (all non-SuSE; most notably Mathematica), and implemented the same solution... this basically solves the problem, but it's still possible for a malicious user (or a curious user finding the binaries which I renamed DoNotRunThis01 etc.) to run the original program directly (i.e. without the ulimit wrapper script), and crash the machine. Does anyone know whether mozilla has this problem too? It might be a good idea to uninstall netscape and use mozilla instead. That would get rid of the problem for one application at least... Cheers, Yuri.
Hello...
Just thought I'd add my $0.02 worth in...
I *always* run netscape from a script which uses ulimit to set the amount of memory it can get. If I don't, it sometimes sucks the life out of the machine in similar ways by using all memory. With it ulimitted, it dies after a while (when it can't get any more memory), but my system still lives on. I've been doing this for serveral years.
-Nick
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