From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2004-08-30T00:45:28+09:00
Subject: Re: rmagick crash?

Roeland Moors wrote:

> I use rmagick to transform an image.
> This works nice for 1 or a couple or images, but when I do more
> images I have problems.
> 
> After a couple of images my program just stops with the output
> 'killed'. No error message, nothing.
> 
> Then I updated to the latest version of rmagick en tried again.
> It did more images, but then my pc completely crashed!
> (I'm not using windows :-)
> 
> What could cause these problems?
> Am I doing something stupid?
> 

Sorry you're having trouble with RMagick.

I'm guessing that you're running out of memory. For some reason GC is not
able to clean up the image objects you're no longer using.

If you send me the whole program I'll see what I can do.