cache resources exhausted Imagemagick
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I'm using Imagemagick on a rails app with Minimagick and I generate some pictogram with it.
When I launch my process I have this error and I don't find a solution:
MiniMagick::Error (`convert -limit memory 2GiB -limit map 2GiB -limit disk 4GiB -background none -fill #000000 -font ttf/SELIS006N.ttf -pointsize 300 label: S public/pictogram_images/RECINTAN-EL-064-layer-1.png` failed with error:
convert.im6: cache resources exhausted ` S' @ error/cache.c/OpenPixelCache/4078.
convert.im6: no images defined `public/pictogram_images/RECINTAN-EL-064-layer-1.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3044.
):
My process is simple, I have some .tff file and each character is a pictogram. I just want to generate all preview of this character in png.
Ruby on-Rails Solutions
Solution 1 - Ruby on-Rails
Find the policy.xml with find / -name "policy.xml"
something like /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
and change <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="1GiB"/>
to <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="8GiB"/>
refer to convert fails due to resource limits
Solution 2 - Ruby on-Rails
The error probably occurs because you run out of memory. You can check for the resources using the following command:
> convert -list resource
The output will be somewhat like this:
Resource limits:
Width: 16KP
Height: 16KP
Area: 128MP
Memory: 256MiB
Map: 512MiB
Disk: 1GiB
File: 768
Thread: 8
Throttle: 0
Time: unlimited
Here, you can see that the assigned amounts of disk space and memory are very small. So, in order to modify it you need to change the policy.xml file located somewhere in /etc/ImageMagick-6 directory.
Change <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="1GiB"/>
to <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="4GiB"/>
in the policy.xml file.
Solution 3 - Ruby on-Rails
sed -i '/disable ghostscript format types/,+6d' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml //this one is just to solve convertion from .tiff to pdf, you may need it some day
sed -i -E 's/name="memory" value=".+"/name="memory" value="8GiB"/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
sed -i -E 's/name="map" value=".+"/name="map" value="8GiB"/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
sed -i -E 's/name="area" value=".+"/name="area" value="8GiB"/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
sed -i -E 's/name="disk" value=".+"/name="disk" value="8GiB"/g' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
Solution 4 - Ruby on-Rails
Not sure exactly which item is causing you the problem, but it is probably one of these:
-
You need to put your font into ImageMagick's XML-based font file rather than specify a
file.ttf
in yourconvert
command. To get the list of available fonts, useidentify -list font | more
Path: /Users/mark/.magick/type.xml <--- Edit your font into here Font: ACaslonPro family: unknown style: Undefined stretch: Undefined weight: 0 glyphs: /Library/Fonts/ACaslonPro-Regular.otf Font: ACaslonPro-Semibold family: unknown style: Undefined stretch: Undefined weight: 0 glyphs: /Library/Fonts/ACaslonPro-Semibold.otf ... ...
At the beginning you will see the path to the config file for your fonts and you need to edit that to include your TTF file you mentioned. If you have lots of fonts to add, you may like to automate the process - see my other post here.
-
You may need to escape the
#
in your-fill
option, or at least surround it by single, or double quotes to hide it from the shell, if yourMiniMagick
invokes via shell - I don't know the ins and outs ofMiniMagick
. -
You may need to quote the letter
S
that you wish to output inside single or double quotes. -
You may need to remove the space after the colon following
label
.
What I am getting at is that your command should maybe be more like this:
convert -limit memory 2GiB -limit map 2GiB -limit disk 4GiB -background none -fill "#000000" -font "TimesNewRoman" -pointsize 300 label:"S" output.png