I don't know where people get the idea that image processing is not a memory-intensive process. Most image formats are compressed, heavily in some cases. magicked needs to uncompress the image, apply the transforms, and re-compress it back to disk... all in-memory. Throw in some concurrency, and your memory usage will spiral.
Just as a point of reference, I have been working on a set of comps at work. The photoshop file is 32 Mb on disk. In memory, before doing anything, photoshop's memory usage climbs to 1.2 Gb(!). Sure, a bit extreme, but it illustrates my point. == Will Green _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
