FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS?

[Norberto Meijome]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:29:59 +0200
Roger Olofsson <raggen at passagen.se> wrote:

> Turns out ImageMagick was called through php to resize the .JPG and most 
> likely, the server runs out of memory/disk space. /var/tmp fills up and 
> console spews as follows:
> 
> Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 28
> Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 32768 
> at 62620
> Aug 22 19:29:49 rutilus kernel: pid 29 (syncer), uid 0 inumber 49382 on 
> /var: filesystem full

:) having been bitten by that in several unix-like OS (pick any Linux distro, and freebsd too), i just remove /var/tmp and make a smylink to /tmp , which is big enough for my foreseeable needs. I like to keep my /var clean of tmp rubbish.

and yes,  configuring PHP and it's libraries helps too :)

B 
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