Re: Imagemagick / convert slow on VPS

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php

I'm not a tech engineer type, thus installation from packages is not in 
my comfort level bag of tricks.  Someone suggested adding 
"--disable-openmp" along in the installation process and perhaps that 
would resolve the slowness problem.  I really need the steps laid out 
for me, where this happens in the procedures on imagemagick.org.

I have root access to the webhost server where this has to be done (not 
on my linux pc) and am comfortable working from the command prompt via 
SSH access. A question I have - Is it possible to rename the live 
installation so that if I goof up in the install that I can retrace my 
steps, and if so, which folders would I need to rename or move?

After ftp-ing the package to the server:

server% tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz
server% cd ImageMagick-6.6.1
server% ./configure
server% make
server% sudo make install (will already be root so sudo probably not 
necessary)

Where does the --disable-openmp come into play?
Anything else?

Again -the original problem, with the current hosting if I add a simple 
"-resize" option it takes a minimum of 8 seconds for convert to complete.

-Bob