Hi Monks,
Background: We've been running perl5.8.0 on our server for years and have been happily using Image::Magick. We installed perl5.8.8 a short while ago to /usr/local/bin/perl, so we can still use 5.8.0 at /usr/bin/perl and not have to update all of our perl scripts.
Problem: I tried using Image::Magick with 5.8.8 and I was told it wasn't installed. "Duh," I said to myself, and started up CPAN. I tried installing Image::Magick, but CPAN told me Image::Magick was up to date. "WTF? No it isn't! It isn't even installed for 5.8.8!" So I did something I probably shouldn't have done:

force install Image::Magick

It appeared to install with no problems. Yay! However, there are major problems. If I just put this one line in a perl5.8.8 script:

use Image::Magick;

Then my server blows up. It completely runs out of memory and the CPU works at 100%. Has anyone run into this before, or does anyone know how to fix it? If nothing else, I'd like to uninstall Image::Magick from 5.8.8.

Thanks!

In reply to Image::Magick Crashing Server by sstevens

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