It is a Centos 5.5 box with 24GB ram and 2GB of swap.
ImageMagick version 6.6.5-10 (from the ImageMagick site).
File contents are as follows ( I know this is not an image, but if by accident convert runs on an ascii file I don't expect it to eat up 26GB of memory
)ImageMagick 6.2 from the Centos Repos works fine and says 'not a jpeg'.
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vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl
vti_author:SR|USAWEBSERVER\\ANITA
vti_cachedhastheme:BR|false
vti_cachedhasborder:BR|false
vti_lastwidth:IX|205
vti_timecreated:TR|06 Feb 2003 19:10:32 -0500
vti_lastheight:IX|361
vti_filesize:IX|15082
vti_modifiedby:SR|USAWEBSERVER\\ANITA
vti_backlinkinfo:VX|
vti_cacheddtm:TX|19 May 2003 15:22:19 -0500
vti_cachedhasbots:BR|false
vti_nexttolasttimemodified:TW|08 May 2003 22:54:08 -0000
vti_extenderversion:SR|3.0.2.1105
vti_timelastmodified:TR|19 May 2003 15:22:19 -0500
------------------- end file contents --------------------------------------
Thanks for any insight into this.
