Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

[Maxim Konovalov]

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).

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Maxim Konovalov