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 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 largest partition. This is a per system policy issue though so doing it by default is not the right answer. -- 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
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