"killed" error message

[matteosistisette]

I was cropping a huge image into small pieces with:
convert -crop 128x128 sourceimage.png outputimage.png

After 20 minutes of processing, it ended up with the error message "Killed" (not a word more than that), and no file was output.

"Killed" is not an acceptable error message. "Out of memory", or anything describing the cause of the error.

[magick]

Killed doesn't come from ImageMagick. Its a daemon on your system that "kills" memory intense applications. Easy fix. Add '-limit area 0' to your command-line. This trades off memory usage for disk usage, see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/architecture.php for a discussion of the pixel cache.

[matteosistisette]

Oh I see!!!! Thanks a lot