memory limit detection does not work
Posted: 2011-07-01T07:11:13-07:00
When I try to use display to view a multiframe document, the command runs very slowly and it completely hogs my machine. If there is a lot of frames it may crash before displaying anything. However, if I explicitly set the memory limit to, say, 32 MiB, everything runs smoothly. Which is very unexpected because:
- the documentation says that ImageMagick chooses reasonable defaults, which turns out to be false,
- the documentation suggests that setting an explicit limit makes processing slower, whereas what really happens is just the opposite.