Re: Using the ImageMagick backend seems to leak memory

[joakim@verona.se]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this is driving me nuts.  I've already tried modifying
>> imagemagick_load_image() with some messages, and so that it always does
>> MagickWandGenesis() first and MagickWandTerminus() after destroying the
>> last MagickWand.  It does so, but that didn't help...
>>
>> One strangeness I found is the line
>>
>>     image_error ("im read failed", Qnil, Qnil);
>>
>> which is called unconditionally in imagemagick_load_image().  Why?
>
> Thats supposed to be an error condition exit only.
> Isnt there a return statement before?
>
> I havent yet tried to recreate your problem, but my experience when I
> worked on the patch was that I got memory issues when working with image
> bundle files.

I was able to recreate the problem now.

Ill try a newer IM and if it persists contact the IM team.

>
> Also the imagemagick team was very helpful in providing fixes in their
> code.
>
> Have you tried to install a development version of imagemagick?
>
>>
>> Anyway, that cannot be the culprit.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Tassilo

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Joakim Verona