[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 3/17/21 6:24 AM, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> On 03/17/21 02:09 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:27:31PM +0100, Carsten Grzemba via 
>> openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> I made available a firefox package 68esr for testing
>>>
>>> Unfortunately for the moment there is a restriction!
>>> There is a setting in /etc/system necessary:
>>>
>>> set _userlimit=0x7fffc0000000
>>>
>>> whithout this, FF will raise a assertion in JS code.
>> It sounds as if we need the illumos developers to make the appropriate
>> change to the illumos kernel or to the linker so that this setting
>> will not be necessary.  An illumos bug report would be a good starting
>> point.
>>
>>
> Hm..
> 
> How is this handled with Solaris and solaris-userland ?

Solaris 11.4 on x86 defaults to the userlimit setting shown above.

Solaris 11.4 on SPARC uses a linker mapfile to "reserve" all the
memory above that point, making it effectively use that userlimit
for the Firefox process.

See https://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2021-March/032536.html

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