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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.

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.

Oh I see!!!! Thanks a lot