Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I am currently 4 system calls in PHP for some image resizing scripts. I think this may work more stable if I can convert it into one command. Anyone know if this is possible? step 1 (resize image down) system(binary_system_path()."convert $source -limit memory 1 -limit map 1 -thumbnail x800 ...

And the main error in our logs for IM that causes the incomplete images starts with this:

convert: Premature end of JPEG file

So I was reading the imagemagick article about how to speed things up, as my error logs are showing IM has not finishing the completion of the images. It seems because we are sending so many to process sometimes, IM/Server gets overloaded. In the IM article it says to try using not so many system ...

I have adjusted these values, even limiting the thread t 1 file, but still getting images ending in grey outputs...any ideas how to resolve?

Did you ever find a particular fix for this? I am having the exact same problem as you have posted about...

Ok found the file in: /usr/local/etc/ImageMagick/policy.xml I added these items to the document: <policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="3GB"/> <policy domain="resource" name="temporary-path" value="/tmp"/> <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="5GB"/> <policy domain="resource" name ...

Right now there is only the configure file in that /usr/local/lib/ area

Do I just create one manually and IM will automatically read it?

Ok I updated the configure.xml file with the following items: <configure name="MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH" value="/tmp"/> <configure name="MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT" value="1"/> <configure name="MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT" value="1gb"/> <configure name="MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT" value="10gb"/> I restarted the apache server ...

Will try, how do I set my own custom /tmp directory preference for ImageMagick?

Converting some images via a cron task on our servers, but some of the images do not finish, end up with grey backgrounds. Usually, 2/10 images will not convert correctly. Any ideas whats the problem? http://www.nanamee.com/upload/images/38302/38302_t.jpg code sample: convert $source -limit memory 1 ...