Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I have compiled imagemagick 6.6.0-4. that does work perfectly (also compiled with 16 bit). beginning of output with -debug cache below. So there is clearly a problem somewhere. The 6.6.0-4 use 32% of my memory (this is expected) while the last version (6.7.0) use only 5%. There is something preventi...

But I do have the physical memory. I do not want the reduce the memory requirement of Imagemagick. What I want is to allow it to use my physical memory (I have 1.2 Gib and use only an ultra light desktop). You are saying that my OS refuse to give it. But that this not normal, clearly it should be al...

OK the "bug" possibly do not come from imagemagick. I see from convert -debug cache, the following output: 2011-06-17T18:11:37+02:00 0:00.010 0.000u 6.6.9 Cache convert[15178]: cache.c/OpenPixelCache/4097/Cache open test.pnm[0] (heap memory, 4960x7014 265.4MiBB) But how do I convince my OS...

Description: Imagemagick create a cache file in /tmp when there is not engough memory. But it appears that it create it too soon, not using the avaible memory. In my case the convert command create a 300 Mb pixel cache memory in /tmp and use it but then consume only 5% of avaible memory and the pixe...