On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:53:22AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Carl Johnson wrote:
> > I haven't tried imagemagick recently, but it's crashed my system
> > enough times over the years that I avoid it whenever possible. Unless
> > it has changed recently, it doesn't check memory. If it runs out of
> > memory it will keep trying until the system daemons run out of memory
> > and start crashing. I compared it against xv, xloadimage, and gimp,
> > and all of the others would abort an operation and give a warning when
> > they ran out of memory. Of course, if you have *lots* of memory, then
> > it's probably safe enough.
>
> This is what resource limits are for.
Hmm.
I'd argue that this is what good coding is for.
Mike
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