Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:12:29 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael A. Koerber" <mak@ll.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user. Message-ID: <200510282212.30747.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43620B8C.8070301@ll.mit.edu> References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <43620B8C.8070301@ll.mit.edu>
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--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--
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