From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 12:42:39 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 CA23E16A41F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:42:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB9343D45 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:42:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp128-213.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [59.167.128.213]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9SCgW90001756 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:12:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:12:29 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <43620B8C.8070301@ll.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <43620B8C.8070301@ll.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7389909.KA5I5ZHVkW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510282212.30747.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Michael A. Koerber" 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 12:42:39 -0000 --nextPart7389909.KA5I5ZHVkW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 would be good to know why. Can you enable crash dumps? (The handbook says how) > 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/tmp directory for > scratch. Personally I always link /tmp, /var/tmp and /usr/tmp to a tmp directory on = my=20 largest partition. This is a per system policy issue though so doing it by= =20 default is not the right answer.=20 =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart7389909.KA5I5ZHVkW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDYhy25ZPcIHs/zowRAvLJAKCokzNccMoRzMci/2RwVmXrtyRRAwCeNhYc hGI+foporZmIrKyplRdXJLE= =9tv/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7389909.KA5I5ZHVkW--