On 3/16/19 5:21 PM, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote:
I’ve been using Thunderbird for mail on my OpenBSD laptop for a few years now, with the odd crash but rarely anything reproducible. Now after leaving my OpenBSD laptop at home while I went on a trip to the great elsewhere and read mail using something else, Thunderbird reliably crashes after successfully downloading the 4000+ messages from the server (via pop3, spop3d on OpenBSD if it matters), but apparently before managing to update its own local message store. Leading of course to another download on the next startup, and so on and on. The crash *does* leave a thunderbird.core file in my home directory, and after starting the thing from the shell prompt (ie thunderbird &), I got the following message displayed: [Sat Mar 16 13:06:31] peter@greyhame:~$ out of memory: 0x0000000000000180 bytes requested [1]+ Segmentation fault (core dumped) thunderbird The machine has 32G RAM, so I assume actual physical memory was not exhausted, but I assume some settable limit would be relevant. What is the more useful path forward here?
Check: ulimit -a and especially see login.conf(5) and /etc/login.conf
