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Very large file conversion

Posted: 2009-12-30T08:51:38-07:00
by hmedia
Hi.

I need to do some large image scaling, for example from 4096 x 4096 px up to 131072 x 131072 px using cubic interpolation. My question is whether ImageMagick works with mmaped files or something, thus not requiring the files to be loaded completely into memory first?

Re: Very large file conversion

Posted: 2009-12-30T10:03:52-07:00
by magick
See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/architecture.php. ImageMagick can cache pixels to disk rather than memory for large images. Use -limit area 1mb, for example, to force image pixels to disk for anything but the smallest images.