[gs-devel] Memory usage in GS 8.63

[Ray Johnston]

Hi Brad,

Please send an example file or attach one to a bug report at
http://bugs.ghostscript.com

In general, 8.63 is much better about memory utilization that the
(obsolete) 8.54 version.

Note that if you are a licensed Artifex customer, then please
email support at artifex.com and let us know the customer name
so we can make sure and prioritize the issue.

Best Regards,
Rayi
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Brad Ward wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We recently upgraded from version 8.54 to version 8.63 which fixed 
> several issues that we were encountering in processing several PDF files.
>
> We are passing a command line parameter (-K 1024000 ) to limit the 
> amount of RAM that Ghostscript will use.  This is unfortunately 
> necessary because the machines that this runs on also do other 
> processing and we had issues where a badly created PDF would run the 
> server out of memory and start swapping.
>
> We are now encountering several PDF's that are requiring 4-8 times or 
> more memory than was previously required under the old version.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  I'd hate to have to roll back.
>
> Here is the command line that we use to execute gs:
>
> /usr/bin/gs -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=936 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=1598 
> -dPDFFitPage -dPrinted=false -dUseCropBox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -K102400 
> -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 
> -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=out.jpg -- $1
>
>
>
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