ImageMagick refused to convert the animated GIF and killed the process silently due to CPU

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I tried with these solutions below, but unsuccessfully:

My animated GIF has 13.5MB. My computer has 16GB RAM memory. I have 8 CPUs of AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. I received the error:

$ convert -limit memory 2MB -limit map 2MB -limit area 1000MB -delay 2 -loop 0 "Bug do pagamento.gif" Extraídos/bug.png
convert: unable to write pixel cache '/tmp/magick-RSymnnZRmXzueDXGI3ehEtIiUkBcymGa': Sem espaço livre no dispositivo @ error/cache.c/WritePixelCachePixels/5830.
convert: corrupt image `Bug do pagamento.gif' @ error/gif.c/DecodeImage/505.
convert: corrupt image `Bug do pagamento.gif' @ error/gif.c/ReadGIFImage/1368.
convert: no images defined `Extraídos/bug.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3285.
zsh: exit 1     convert -limit memory 2MB -limit map 2MB -limit area 1000MB -delay 2 -loop 0 
convert -limit memory 2MB -limit map 2MB -limit area 1000MB -delay 2 -loop 0   2,75s user 2,73s system 99% cpu 5,505 total

Using LANG=C:

$ LANG=C convert -limit memory 2MB -limit map 2MB -limit area 1000MB -delay 2 -loop 0 "Bug do pagamento.gif" Extraídos/bug.png
convert: unable to write pixel cache '/tmp/magick-RlftdgBD6MZCwArQzkuz5QI-kJtui7yk': No space left on device @ error/cache.c/WritePixelCachePixels/5830.
convert: corrupt image `Bug do pagamento.gif' @ error/gif.c/DecodeImage/505.
convert: corrupt image `Bug do pagamento.gif' @ error/gif.c/ReadGIFImage/1368.
convert: no images defined `Extraídos/bug.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3285.
zsh: exit 1     LANG=C convert -limit memory 2MB -limit map 2MB -limit area 1000MB -delay 2  
LANG=C convert -limit memory 2MB -limit map 2MB -limit area 1000MB -delay 2    2,84s user 2,60s system 99% cpu 5,454 total

tmpfs:

LANG=C df -h /tmp
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           7,9G  7,2M  7,9G   1% /tmp

Can you run the same command this way `LANG=C convert ... the rest of your options`? Also it might be worth trying doing the same using `ffmpeg`. — Artem S. Tashkinov, Aug 18 '20 at 22:06
Your command fails probably because: `No space left on device in /tmp`. You might have run out of space in `/tmp`. — Artem S. Tashkinov, Aug 18 '20 at 22:22
No, only less than 6% of my SSD is occupied. The `/tmp` is not a partition. — Oo'-, Aug 18 '20 at 22:23
In modern Linux distros `/tmp` is often `tmpfs` which occupies exactly half of your RAM. Please show your `df -h /tmp` output. — Artem S. Tashkinov, Aug 18 '20 at 22:24
Please try asking here as well: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions or maybe even open an issue: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues — Artem S. Tashkinov, Aug 18 '20 at 22:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 12 '23 at 18:37

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I finally moved to ffmpeg who does the job.
This is the command I used to convert from a 24M video to a 2.8M gif.

ffmpeg -i <input_file>.mp4 -r 15 -vf scale=512:-1 out.gif

edited Feb 12 '23 at 18:37

Edgar Magallon

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answered Feb 12 '23 at 18:15

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ImageMagick refused to convert the animated GIF and killed the process silently due to CPU

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