Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thank you for the fast reply. I'll give that a try ad report back. I'm just using the default yum binaries currently.

We recently upgraded our cluster to centos 6, and seem to be having cpu usage problems with imagemagick once again. I have edited the policy.xml and changed threads to 1. I verified with convert -list resource that "Thread" is showing 1, yet each convert process is taking up to 900% of our cpu, or 9 ...

Wanted to come back and update. We pushed this change and the resulting server load decrease was dramatic. We went from a cluster wide average load of 40 to an average load of 4. We can literally get rid of half of our servers after this single change. Our image processing tasks used to spike to 300 ...

I found /usr/lib64/ImageMagick-6.6.5/config which has the policy file and such. Does the pecl package just bundle the ImageMagick library with it? Would be my guess since I can't issue convert -version at the command line. So, is there a way to recompile the version that it installs with the pecl ...

First some background. We resize about 50 million source images into 5 different sizes. For this we use a cluster of 16 dual 8 core servers. We don't have imagemagick installed on any of the servers, but rather just imagick through the yum pecl package (yum install php-pecl-imagick). This works fine ...