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OS Upgrade led to the slow down, as it was working fine before the upgrade.

Solution was to upgrade Macports and reinstall all packages as described in https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration

-Todd

That was my issue ... all is well again with the world. Thanks all for your help in this process!

$ time convert 20170905/GARAGE2_2017090516301705.jpg -background Green label:"label" +swap -gravity Center -append "annotated/out2.jpg"

real 0m0.035s
user 0m0.025s
sys 0m0.007s

I installed it using MacPorts, but have since upgraded my os ... going through the steps outlined here right now and will report back:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration

$ time convert -debug cache 20170905/GARAGE2_2017090516301705.jpg -background Green label:"label" +swap -gravity Center -append "annotated/out2.jpg"
2017-09-05T19:51:43-06:00 0:00.010 0.000u 6.9.5 Cache convert[98478]: cache.c/DestroyPixelCache/1121/Cache
destroy
2017-09-05T19:51:43-06:00 0:00.010 ...

The dimension of the images are 320x240. I've uploaded a sample here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5eDVyxJpevkQXJiWmZaTXZGV2s

$ convert -list resource
Resource limits:
Width: 214.7MP
Height: 214.7MP
Area: 34.36GP
Memory: 16GiB
Map: 32GiB
Disk: unlimited
File: 192
Thread: 1
Throttle ...

I have a script that I've been using for several years, but hadn't used in the past year or so, but am trying to re-purpose it again. Basically, the script annotates a bunch of images using either of the following commands (once per image):

montage -label "label" ${img} -geometry +0+0 -background ...