From: Pito Salas <rps@...>
Date: 2009-08-28T08:58:46+09:00
Subject: Re: RMagick reacts very oddly to an incorrect file

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Pito Salas wrote:
>>             Magick::Image.read(f, &block).each { |n| @images << n }
>> 
>> will have a comment... But if anyone, especially  TimH can shed some
>> light I would appreciate it!
>> 
>> I want to put some defensive code into my stuff but I am not sure what I
>> am checking for. Is it just a very large file or what?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> 
>> Pito
> 
> My guess is that you ran out of memory and OS X started swapping to
> disk. This would explain your disk whirling and your computer getting
> unresponsive. Killing the process freed the memory and things went back
> to normal.

But why would a 40M file run out of memory on a machine with 2G of 
memory, and why didn't it just throw an error? By the way if I use 
ImageMagick itself, off the command line with the identify command it 
has no problem with the file.
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