Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:35:40 -0700 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user. Message-ID: <200510271735.41539.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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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
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