[thelist] What is normal 'ImageMagick' processing on VPS hosting? - Closure
Bob Meetin
bobm at dottedi.biz
Wed May 12 12:27:32 CDT 2010
Closure at last.
Background: This simple command, "convert image.jpg -resize 480
image480.jpg" was taking about 9 seconds on my HostGator VPS account
with good processing speed and ample memory. On the former shared
account it completed in about a second.
I checked around, looked into perhaps 20 other providers that offered
VPS - all indicated that they ran dual or quad core. I was going to try
to do a comparative test, but without a comparable setup, this could not
happen.
HostGator staff told me this was because it was a single core
processor. - Wrong wrong wrong!
A couple folks on the ImageMagick forum, perhaps someone here, suggested
to reinstall ImageMagick and disable openmp. I did this when running
configure, "./configure --disable-openmp".
This worked. It now processes in under 1 second and doesn't peak the
load average, nor raise eyebrows.
If anyone is interested in the spreadsheet I put together on the VPS
providers I queried, just whistle.
-Bob
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