With ulimit I get

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 13:47, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> tags 25625 + unreproducible
> quit
>
> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@inria.fr> writes:
>
> > Standard imagemagick from linux mint 18.1:
> >
> > antoine@epsilon:~$ convert --version
> > Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2016-11-29
> http://www.imagemagick.org
> > Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC
> > Features: DPC Modules OpenMP
> > Delegates: bzlib cairo djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms
> lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png rsvg tiff wmf x xml zlib
>
> I'm not able to reproduce the problem, I can read the file you sent
> without trouble, albeit pretty slowly.  It takes about ~15s to go to the
> next page, during which time I see (in top) Emacs' memory usage go up,
> but it goes back down again after the page is displayed.  Perhaps the
> imagemagick version is the problem?
>
> ~$ convert --version
> Version: ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114
> http://www.imagemagick.org
> Copyright: © 1999-2017 ImageMagick Studio LLC
> License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
> Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP
> Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jp2
> jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png tiff wmf x xml zlib
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+
> COMMAND
> 23078 npostavs  20   0 1390832 831836 535952 D  42.9 20.9   2:08.71 emacs
> //{while going to next page}
> 23078 npostavs  20   0  679200 120040  26632 S   0.0  3.0   2:21.38 emacs
> //{after page is displayed}
>
> By the way (sorry I forgot to suggest this before asking you to retest)
> if you use ulimit to cap virtual mem at say 2GB 'ulimit -v $((2 * 1024
> 1024))' does Emacs give you an out of memory error instead of crashing
> your system?
>