Well, it appears that after 15-20 minutes, the process stops hogging all the CPU because it filled up the 32GB hard disk on my virtual machine:
df -h /dev/vda1 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 32G 30G 8.0K 100% / du -sh /tmp/magick-XXYttOhe 29G /tmp/magick-XXYttOhe Here's the stats on the process after the mentioned duration: ps ax | grep conver[t] 4698 pts/0 DN+ 4:29 convert -debug all ubuntu-imagemagick-hang.psd null: I'll still let it run for the rest of the day in case anything interesting happens. -- ImageMagick hangs when decoding some PSD images https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597469 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs