Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-30 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:12:26AM +1000, Carl Makin wrote: > 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 cons

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Michael A. Koerber
Rob wrote: > Michael A. Koerber wrote: > >>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/tm

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Rob
Michael A. Koerber wrote: > 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 I

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:59, Michael A. Koerber wrote: > I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often fills up) /var/tmp...my > system becomes sluggish, dies, reboots. Your system shouldn't reboot - it is probably panicing for some reason and it would be good to know why. Can you enable crash

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Carl Makin wrote: 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,

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Michael A. Koerber
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/

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-27 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, 10:12+1000, 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

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
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 t

Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Makin
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