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

From: Rob (spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:31:21 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Michael A. Koerber" <mak@ll.mit.edu>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>

    Michael A. Koerber wrote:
    > I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often
    > fills up) /var/tmp...my system becomes sluggish,
    > dies, reboots.
    >
    > 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.

    Use:

    setenv MAGICK_TMPDIR /usr/tmp

    Rob.

            
                    
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