[plug] ImageMagick (was: Partitioning)

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Wed Sep 25 18:52:18 WST 2002


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:40, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Then again you can always create temporary swap _files_
> on normal partitions if you're going to do something awful to your
> system (in my case, run a complex montage(1) command from ImageMagick on
> 500mb of TIFFs).

Yes, ImageMagick does some truly wonderful things with images (e.g. most 
effective JPEG compressor around), but certainly isn't shy about soaking up 
RAM to achieve it!

Cheers; Leon



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