ImageMagick command line convert -limit values

Question

I need to convert an extremely large image. The default resource limits of Image Magick are far too small.

The Image Magick website discusses changing the limits, but none of the syntaxes I've tried have worked, the commands aren't recognized.

For instance, I need to set the magick_disk_limit to something like 25GB. Then there will be a series of others to set, magick_area_limit, magick_height_limit, etc. How do I enter those commands?

What I've tried is

-limit width 100KP
convert -limit width 100KP
magick_disk_limit 25GB
MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT 25GB

In all cases the response is either command not found, or unrecognized resource type. I also tried putting in a convert command with all the -limit parameters defined as part of the command, like this:

convert -limit 100KP 100KP 100GP 14GiB 100GiB unlimited 5 8 0 unlimited Lunar_LRO_LrocKaguya_DEMmerge_60N60S_512ppd.tif MoonRelief.png

I have now tried export MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT=25GiB, but then when I enter identify -list resource the Disk limit hasn't changed.

convert -limit memory 12GB -limit map 25GiB -limit width 10MP -limit height 10MP -limit area 100GP -limit disk 30GiB Lunar_LRO_LrocKaguya_DEMmerge_60N60S_512ppd.tif MoonRelief.png

generates this list of warnings and errors

convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 33550 (0x830e) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 33922 (0x8482) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 34735 (0x87af) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 34736 (0x87b0) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 34737 (0x87b1) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 42112 (0xa480) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: Unknown field with tag 42113 (0xa481) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/912.
convert-im6.q16: width or height exceeds limit `Lunar_LRO_LrocKaguya_DEMmerge_60N60S_512ppd.tif' @ error/cache.c/OpenPixelCache/3837.
convert-im6.q16: no images defined `MoonRelief.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.

Answer 1

I was able to find a solution through the ImageMagick forum.

The method was to change the settings for Resource limits in the file handling that in ImageMagick, called policy.xml. In Ubuntu 18.04 that is found in /etc/ImageMagick-6. It is set as read-only, so I temporarily changed the write permissions with sudo chmod 777 policy.xml from within that folder. After making the changes, I switched the permission to 744.

This is what the relevant section of policy.xml looks like:

<policymap>
  <!-- <policy domain="resource" name="temporary-path" value="/tmp"/> -->
  <policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="14GiB"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="map" value="30GiB"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="width" value="16MP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="height" value="16MP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="area" value="40GP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="30GiB"/>
  <!-- <policy domain="resource" name="file" value="768"/> -->
  <!-- <policy domain="resource" name="thread" value="4"/> -->
  <!-- <policy domain="resource" name="throttle" value="0"/> -->
  <!-- <policy domain="resource" name="time" value="3600"/> -->
  <!-- <policy domain="system" name="precision" value="6"/> -->
  <!-- not needed due to the need to use explicitly by mvg: -->
  <!-- <policy domain="delegate" rights="none" pattern="MVG" /> -->
  <!-- use curl -->
  <policy domain="delegate" rights="none" pattern="URL" />
  <policy domain="delegate" rights="none" pattern="HTTPS" />
  <policy domain="delegate" rights="none" pattern="HTTP" />
  <!-- in order to avoid to get image with password text -->
  <policy domain="path" rights="none" pattern="@*"/>
  <policy domain="cache" name="shared-secret" value="passphrase" stealth="true"/>
</policymap>

The parts that needed changing already have the values I substituted in so I can process the image in question. They are the 3rd to the 8th line, the resource named "memory" to the resource named "disk".

After making those changes, checking in the terminal with identify -list resource returns the new values.

Answer 2

You didn't say what you tried, and I suspect a case problem "magick_area_limit" is not the same as "MAGICK_AREA_LIMIT".

but here are two ways:

Start imagemagick from a script :

#!/bin/bash
export MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT=42GiB
export MAGICK_AREA_LIMIT=42MP
# etc ...
imagemagic "$@"

or, use the env command:

env MAGICK_DISK_LIMIT=42GiB MAGICK_AREA_LIMIT=42MP imagemagick ...

Answer 3

I am using ubuntu 20.0.4 LTS this is an extension to answer from @kim holder

Go to sudo nano /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

Change the below lines to enable convert image with large size.

  <policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="14GiB"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="map" value="30GiB"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="width" value="16MP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="height" value="16MP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="area" value="40GP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="30GiB"/>

Read the original answer as well
https://askubuntu.com/a/1041633/970339

Thanks, Hope this clarifies to do the fix fast.

Answer 4

For my case I only changed the width and height value of policy.xml

  <policy domain="resource" name="width" value="16MP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="height" value="16MP"/>

Also before changing anything in configuration file it's good practice to take a backup so just copy the file in the same directory with a .bak filename.

sudo cp -v policy.xml policy.xml.bak

You can copy the file other places but that may change the ownership and permission.