[magick-users] Question about performance of ImageMagick.

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia Monday 22 of September 2008, ggaliens at nycap.rr.com napisał:
> It did look like I was I/O bound as my CPU was low (5-7%) most of the
> time during these operations ... so that seems pretty bad.

That's normal. IM is light on CPU, veeeery heavy on RAM.

Even if you are using Q16 version you should get some relief with
passing -depth 8 at the beginning of options.

m.