My 15 minute command

[mattalexx]

This command just took 15 minutes to complete. Why? I don't have the speediest of dev servers but 15 minutes seems a little high.

Here's the command

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convert -debug "All" input.jpg -resize 420x420\> output.jpg

Here's a link to the source image
http://files.mattalexander.me/misc/input.jpg (6.3 MB)

Here's the debug output
http://files.mattalexander.me/misc/debug_output.txt

Here's the version

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mattserver ~: convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.4.5 2009-06-04 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

Thanks for your attention

[magick]

Try rebuilding ImageMagick without OpenMP support. There are a few buggy implementations of libgomp that slows down ImageMagick rather than speed it up. We're using ImageMagick 6.5.7-0 and your command completed in 2 seconds.

[mattalexx]

Could you point me towards a good tutorial about how to rebuild IM?

Also, if I do that, doesn't my package manager lose track of it?

Thanks,

[magick]

See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advan ... lation.php.