From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.1 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020417 Description of problem: I was using webmagick <http://webmagick.sourceforge.net/> to generate some webpages from appr. 1000+ digital photos (each 800x600 .jpg and ca. 90KB). WebMagick is using PerlMagick included with ImageMagick. I ran it on my 7.3 system with 512MB RAM and 1GB swap, and after appr. 400 pix had been processed, the kernel decided to kill webmagick. This is from /var/log/messages: May 1 17:28:08 saturn kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 24124 (webmagick). I tried the same on my up2date 7.2 system (it's physically the same system actually, so RAM and swap are identical), and didn't see any problem and, what's even more important, it didn't even *touch the swap space*! Initially I suspected the new VM in the 2.4.18 kernel, but when I downgraded ImageMagick to the version which comes with RHL 7.2, ie. ImageMagick-5.3.8-3 ImageMagick-c++-5.3.8-3 ImageMagick-c++-devel-5.3.8-3 ImageMagick-devel-5.3.8-3 ImageMagick-perl-5.3.8-3 everything works without problems even on the new 2.4.18-3 kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): -5.4.3.11-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Get and build webmagick 2.invoke it like "webmagick --verbose" using the .webmagickrc from below 3. Actual Results: After some time the kernel will kill the process as it ran out of memory. Expected Results: The process should terminate normally. Additional info: This should be stuck into the file .webmagickrc in the current directory: $opt_anonymous=1; $opt_cachegeom="80x60+2+2>"; $opt_columns=1; $opt_framestyle=2; $opt_indexname="index.shtml"; $opt_javascript=1; $opt_readme="readme.shtml"; $opt_rows=245; $opt_tables=1; $opt_thumbgeometry="80x60+2+2>";
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