Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I'm watching the program stats in task manager on win10 or in devstudio 2015. Old program, old IM, goes up to about 6GB mem while reading, then back down. New program, new IM, goes up to about 1.7GB mem and levels off, but then the disk access spikes to max for minutes on end until the file is done ...

I took out the policy file usage, but still seem to be getting my mem use capped at about 1.7GB. Where is that coming from?

I work for a company that has used ImageMagick for a long time, through MagickCore with C and C++. We were using a very old version until now. That version, when loading a large animated gif, would spike mem usage up to about 5GB and get the job done in about 5 seconds. We liked that just fine. Now ...