I've been happily using Red Hat 8 and Mozilla (now 1.4.1) for some time, but today I ran into a curious problem. Three times in a row, when I tried to fetch messages, Mozilla stopped responding, and couldn't be killed, even with kill -9. The unkillable process was in state R. Attaching to that process with strace yields no syscalls. The Inbox it was trying to fetch is of size 1007303668, which is about 30k shy of 1GB. I repeated this twice after rebooting. e2fsck -f showed the filesystem was fine, no errors. Sadly, when I tried to repeat the test a fourth time using strace right from the start, I was unable to repeat the hang; it sailed on happily past where it had gotten stuck before, and my Inbox is now larger than 1 GB. I'm hoping the problem will stay gone. Perhaps Red Hat 8's kernel goes bonkers when Mozilla tries to extend Inbox to exactly 1GB? Who knows. It's a very odd thing. I'll post again if the strange hang recurs. - Dan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
