[magick-users] HP Core Duo freezeup

[James Whitwell]

omicronpersei8 at imagemagick.org wrote:
>> At unpredictable intervals, and on different files, convert hangs
>>     
>
> Add -debug cache to your command line.  Most likely your image is being
> cached to disk which can be 1000 times slower than in-memory conversion.
> Otherwise the conversion is taking place in memory and your system is
> thrashing.  For predictable but slower results, add -limit area 2048 to
> your command line.  This forces large images to be cached to disk.
>   
If I wanted to do the opposite -- make sure that, memory permitting, 
images would always be worked on in memory, rather than caching on disk, 
what value should I pass to "-limit area"?

Thanks,
;) james.