Comments on: ‘gs’ is killing my system

By: Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:26:35 +0000

It’s definitely something with the file – I’ve tried it through both ps2pdf and evince and they both start consuming ungodly processor resources for a long time. After 3 minutes on each, I gave up and stopped them. Perhaps we can ask the author for an updated file?

By: Kostas Georgiou

Kostas Georgiou — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:05:42 +0000

Well “ghostscript -sDEVICE=x11alpha -dSAFER kde4build.ps” works fine.
gv which fails uses something like: “ghostscript -sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=2 -dMaxBitmap=10000000 -dNOPLATFONTS -dSAFER kde4build.ps” so I guess that ghostscript is running out of memory. Playing with the options will probably tell you which one is the cause. It’s probably best to keep memory bounded to something low with ulimit if you don’t want to kill your system which each test ;P

By: Kanti

Kanti — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:42:25 +0000

I downloaded the ps file , and can see it perfectly without any issues on my box.

kghostview –version
Qt: 3.3.7
KDE: 3.5.7
KGhostView: 0.20

Regards

Kanti

By: kd

kd — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:22:19 +0000

Not working :(
Again gs is killing with load avarage 4.56 after 1 minute, mem usage 76%. I think there is some problem with the file itself .

By: Atul Chitnis

Atul Chitnis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:10:30 +0000

Something kaput with the ps file, gs just barfs on it.

But if you run

ps2pdf kde4build.ps

you can hapily read the resulting pdf file kde4build.pdf