Magick.NET C# - huge memory usage

Question

I'm struggling with Magick.NET library, as when converting image files to pdf's my memory usage is over 4GB and the CPU usage is 100%. When the conversion is done it all backs to normal. but as I'm using this particular third party in many instances of one application it causes huge memory loss.

Problem exists on line images.Write(newPdfPath);

using (MagickImageCollection images = new MagickImageCollection())
        {
            images.Read(orginalImage);

            images.Write(newPdfPath);
        }

The images are different sizes, and it really doesn't matter how big, as when converting jpg of size 7 KB the issue also exists.

Please help!!!!

How big are the images? Maybe [this] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34737302/memory-consumption-in-magick-net) can give you an explanation. — Luud van Keulen, Sep 27 '16 at 14:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '16 at 11:07

the cpu and memory allocations are not related to the size of the image on your hard drive. It completly related to the number of pixels you have. if you have a completely white image of 20,000 pixel by 20,000 pixel, the size of this file on your hard drive can be 6 MG but when you load it into memory with Magick.net it will be gigabytes. So first you have to see what size(in pixels) are the images and then we can judge about the performance. Then you can use these approaches to improve the performance:

once you load the image into memory you can write it on HDD with .mpc format and then you can load it into memory very fast. (if you need to load couple of times your images)

Use Magikc.net q8 instead of q16

if you can run the command on a parallel loop then Magick.net version 7 can run almost 4 times faster.

and as the other answer is saying you have to dispose your image when it has been done.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '16 at 14:33

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If you convert images in a loop then disposing each image after conversion is done it might help. Use

Image.Dispose();

method in order to free unmanaged memory resources used by images.

answered Sep 27 '16 at 14:33

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Disposing is not needed for `images`. `images`variable is declared in an `using` statement which will call `Dispose` at the end of the `using` statement. – ADreNaLiNe-DJ Oct 11 '16 at 11:13
Will, call Dispose(), but it doesn't mean it will be disposed at that moment. – BrightShadow Aug 31 '17 at 10:57

Magick.NET C# - huge memory usage

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