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Hi,
I am running convert on Ubuntu 8.10 server x64 on a PDF to tif.
The .pdf is over 2MB in size. On my Ubuntu 8.04 desktop (on a laptop) it takes about 2-3 seconds, but on my Ubuntu 8.10 server it takes like 3 minutes. My server is bare bones. I tried it on two different hardware configs and its still really slow.

I'm going to try and compile it from source on the x64 server and see if it makes a difference.

Why would I see this drastic difference?

thanks,

Add -debug cache to your command line. If the pixels are cached to disk instead of memory you would expect a dramatic slowdown. If both system should pixels are cached to memory, add --disable-openmp to your configure script command line and rebuilt / reinstall. Does that improve performance?

Ok, let me give that a try. Not sure why the settings would be different since its the same version and package.

I also noticed it launches 'gs' and that seemed to be chewing up memory. I think one run I had, it ran forever and was consuming 8GB of RAM on a 2MB file.
So something is a bit off.

I'll let you know. Thank you for the reply.