On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:12, 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. >
Just a guess but it may be the software is opening too many files. Try installing /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof then while your program is running run lsof -c {watever you program name is} +r5. If you see screenfulls of open files then thats the problem. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"