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I managed to recompile imagemagick without that suspicious XDelay call - works just as fine, as with it. And, finally, fast! Woot! $ time import -window 0x02a003fb -verbose -silent w.bmp w.bmp PS 562x252 16-bit DirectClass 422KB 0.020u 0:00.030 real 0m0.054s user 0m0.033s sys 0m0.007s So here is may ...

Version 6.7.5 and the bug is still exists. strace shows, that while import is working it stops for 0.8s at some point nanosleep({0, 800000000}, NULL) = 0 <0.800084> I've traced this delay till XImportImage function (magick/xwindow.c). At some this function do call XDelay(display,SuspendTime << 4 ...

Bump. Imagemagick version in my distro updated to 6.6.1-4 but problem remains. I checked import -window command on other PC with Ubuntu 9.10 and got the same pause. But finally I found a way to retrieve screenshot faster: $ time dash -c 'import -verbose -window 0x0420001e import.png' import.png PS ...

Actually with -screen it's even worse. 17:30:35:~$ time import -verbose -screen -window $winid -pause 0 -delay 0 /dev/shm/pic-screen.bmp /dev/shm/pic.bmp PS 266x158 1600x1200+4+23 16-bit DirectClass 123KB 0.020u 0:00.029 real 0m1.898s user 0m1.200s sys 0m0.137s 17:30:45:~$ time import -verbose ...

Here is an example: $time import -verbose -window 0x03c0001e -pause 0 -delay 0 /dev/shm/pic.bmp /dev/shm/pic.bmp PS 266x158 16-bit DirectClass 123KB 0.010u 0:00.009 real 0m0.821s user 0m0.017s sys 0m0.003s This takes screenshot of a fairly small window, uses no compression and stores result in ramfs ...