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. -- see shy jo
