From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 00:34:08 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 6F3B516A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:34:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C372B43D45 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:34:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so339160nzk for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:34:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Y4cvwIOAGwGCpfdPoqEaJscTfIGHy6Y+NcJEgQVOm1AaQEPa3S5fAVCBczUs6ibUbgaNESuegiqWVAB+f5ZO9mvpUgUVwfnCLnzgmcV6l/A+BsfywjXV2EN6O8xwAVbFGERb4i2ell9EJs5QqktNCBFEVVilfq0MetK/wbb6SoU= Received: by 10.36.247.54 with SMTP id u54mr2783199nzh; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm3733005nza.2005.10.27.17.34.05; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:34:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:35:40 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510271735.41539.ringworm01@gmail.com> 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 00:34:08 -0000 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