From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 11:29:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238CE16A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mak@ll.mit.edu) Received: from ll.mit.edu (LLMAIL.LL.MIT.EDU [129.55.12.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DBE43D46 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:29:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mak@ll.mit.edu) Received: (from smtp@localhost) by ll.mit.edu (8.12.10/8.8.8) id j9SBTOmo022075; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:29:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from UNKNOWN( ), claiming to be "[155.34.104.109]" via SMTP by llmail, id smtpdAAAJ2a46Q; Fri Oct 28 07:29:16 2005 Message-ID: <43620B8C.8070301@ll.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:29:16 -0400 From: "Michael A. Koerber" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050330) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl Makin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:29:27 -0000 I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often fills up) /var/tmp...my system becomes sluggish, dies, reboots. The solution I have used is to 1) create a /usr/tmp, 2) remove /var/tmp , 3) make a symbolic link between /usr/tmp and /var/tmp. Perhaps ImageMagick could be patched to use a /usr/tmp directory for scratch. Alternately, if one knew that this would be an issue, /var could be made to be a larger filesystem. mike --------------------- Dr Michael A. Koerber x3250 Carl Makin wrote: > Morning All, > > I've been playing with some GIS software and 32Mb TIFF images. Running > ImageMagick's "convert" utility under my normal user login to convert > the image to gif or jpeg blows away the system every time. No panic > seen on the console and no core dump found, the system just quietly > reboots. Upon reboot /var is full and corrupt and takes ages for the > background fsck to fix it so I normally boot into single user mode and > do it myself. > > Is anyone else seeing this? I can happily supply an image that causes > the problem if someone wants to try it. > > > Carl. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >