Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:08:36 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> 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: <20051028080622.U21585@mp2.macomnet.net> In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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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 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. Known problem. Were discussed severeal times in the past (e.g. subject "vnode_pager_putpages errors" in -stable). -- Maxim Konovalov
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