[Magick-bugs] problem with display -update

[Patrick Jacquot]

Le lundi 02 juillet 2007 à 23:47 +0200, Patrick Jacquot a écrit :
> Hi list,
> I'm currently generating a lot of pictures, combining in every possible
> fashion images coming from a series of about 250 and images coming from
> another series of 100.
> All generated images go thru a file named T2.
> To monitor that process, I use "display -update 1 t2"
> ImageMagick doesn't leak memory, but the X server's virtual image keeps
> on growing.
> When it fills up the 1 GO swap I configured, the machine eventually
> hangs.
> Developers, any clue about that?
> (the generation process doesn't create problems, it doesn't use the X
> server)

Sorry to follow-up myself, but display -update leaks a lot. After
displaying about 3600 1024x768 pixels pictures, it's virtual image grew
to about 200 MB