Re: Error : Memory allocation failed `No such file or directory'

[email protected] Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:09:29 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  convert.exe: Memory allocation failed `No such file or directory' @ 
> ImageMagick-6.4.5\magick\cache.c/unknown/967.

ImageMagick recovers gracefully in most instances when your system
refuses to honor a request for memory.  However, this exception is deep in
the ImageMagick pixel cache and it simply refuses to continue without
getting the memory it requested.  To fix the problem, force the pixels to
disk rather than memory.  If you're using the command line, you wand
something like:

  convert -limit memory 64mb -limit map 128mb ...

These resource limits reduce the large memory (.e.g > 1mb) requests to ensure
there is enough memory for the little requests (.e.g. < 1mb) ImageMagick
requires.