Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I have posted this as a bug: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27687.

Whenever I display an image from stdin, like this: $ cat myfile.jpg | display - "display" creates temp files in the current directory, no matter how I set ImageMagick's environment variables MAGICK_TMPDIR, MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH, etc. This would appear to be a bug. The temp files have names like ...

Anybody have any ideas?

Whenever I display an image from stdin, like this: $ cat myfile.jpg | display - "display" creates temp files in the current directory, no matter how I set ImageMagick's environment variables MAGICK_TMPDIR, MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH, etc. Is there a way to cause these temp files to be created in some ...

You sure? /tmp on my machine has 1 GB of free disk space. The image in question is about 4000 x 3000 pixels.

I got some better error messages this time: Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to extend cache `<path>/myimage.jpg': File too large @ cache.c/OpenPixelCache/3867. convert: Memory allocation failed `<path>/myimage.jpg' @ shear.c/RotateImage/1961. convert: Application transferred too few ...

I've discovered that the crashing pictures are all large in resolution, like 8500 x 3500 pixels. Is there some limit that I need to increase for "convert"? Or for PHP/MediaWiki (the caller)? $ convert -list resource File Area Memory Map Disk Thread Time ...

Our MediaWiki site (CentOS 6.6 Final) runs /usr/bin/convert behind the scenes to generate thumbnails in the standard MediaWiki way. Intermittently, convert crashes. Here is an example command and the gdb backtrace from the crash: /usr/bin/convert -quality 80 -background white /some/path/w/images/c ...