Re: [PLUG] Converting graphics on linux

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 6:05 PM -0400 4/19/02, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> In any case, no sane program would try to hold all of a 150 MB file
> in memory at a time;

	ImageMagick keeps any active image(s) in "memory", relying on 
the OS's VM system to page as necessary.  We also use mmap() on 
systems that support it, though I believe only for reading, not 
writing.

	One thing that will reduce memory usage for ImageMagick is to 
make sure that you disabled 16bit pixels when you configured.


Leonard
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