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convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-8 Q16 i586 2017-01-03 http://www.imagemagick.org
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Hi forum,

this is my first post here.
My network scanner sends tiff-files via ftp to a server on our LAN. The receiving directory there is being watched by inotifywait. If a new file is detected, processing starts (convert, tesseract, hocr2pdf and pdftk). This all works fine, except ...
except I do scan one of those documents, which do not go through. An double sided 8 pager today.
This line in the script

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convert $MYPATH/$FILENAME $TEMPPATH/$FILENAMEBASE-%d.tif 2>> $LOGFILE

leads to

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convert: unable to write pixel cache `/tmp/magick-16076PmTtKD2hpv3v': Auf dem Gerät ist kein Speicherplatz mehr verfügbar @ error/cache.c/WritePixelCachePixels/5451.

which means: not enough disk space on /tmp
I have checked and found 1.4GB free disk space which should be more than enough.

For situations where "unable to extend pixel cache" was the problem, I found a recommendation to do the following:

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# export MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT=20000000       ## 20MB
# env|grep MAGICK
MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT=20000000
#

which brought about no changes as this seems to equal a limit of 20TB.

After I found this posting about units I changed my value to 20

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# export MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT=20
# env|grep MAGICK
MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT=20
#

which, again, changed nothing.

Could anyone please have a look?

Thanks in advance,

banause

Either increase the free space on your temporary partition or set the MAGICK_TMPDIR environment variable to write to a path with plenty of free disk space. ImageMagick returns the exception you received when it runs out of free disk space.

Thanks for helping so quickly.

Sometimes it is as easy as this. I would never have expected it to take 280MB per page (600dpi b/w tiffs).

Thank you!

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