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

Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:31:45 +0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.image-magick.bugs
Organization	U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to

<[email protected]>], who wrote in article <[email protected]>:
>   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.

Could you be more precise, please?  What exactly 64mb and 128mb mean
in this context?   (I hate reading sources...)

Thanks,
Ilya