Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:27:17 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user. Message-ID: <20051030232717.GA1277@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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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 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. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/67919 Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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