[magick-users] ImageMagick causing high server load

[Bob Meetin]

I can't answer the question but this prompts a related question.  If you 
processing in a shared hosting situation, how do you tell that your 
scripts are chewing up memory, or are you being informed by your 
provider that this is happening?  -Bob

Mike wrote:
> I'm switching servers and something is apparently wrong with the setup 
> on the new server. Perl scripts that use Image::Magick worked fine on 
> the other server, but don't work on this one and use up the server 
> memory and a huge chunk of the CPU until I kill the process. I did 
> some searching and found 
> http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2003-January/007069.html 
> and it said:
> After a crash, do:
> convert --version
> gdb `which perl` core
> bt
>
> Here is what I got from that:
> [root at gdserver1 Counters]# convert --version
> Version: ImageMagick 6.3.5 08/05/07 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2007 ImageMagick Studio LLC
>
> [root at gdserver1 Counters]# gdb `which perl` core
> GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.143.el4rh)
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and 
> you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for 
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging 
> symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> /var/cpanel/Counters/core: No such file or directory.
> (gdb)
> (gdb) bt
> No stack.
> (gdb) q
>
>
> Anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it?
>
> Mike
>