I've been having some memory issues with one of my programs so I assembled this little script:

use strict;
use PDL;
use PDL::IO::Pic;
use PDL::IO::GD;

$|++;


for my $i (0 .. 500)
{
    print "$i\n";
    test();

}


sub test
{
    my $path = 'largeimage.png';
    my $im = PDL::IO::GD->new( {filename => $path} );
    undef $im;

}

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It yields the following output:

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PDL::IO::GD::new(): Can't read in the input file!
gd-png error: cannot allocate image data

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I wanted to provide the picture, but I'm at work and have no access to file hosting sites. I know there is a way to append image data to a perl script, but I haven't been able to figure it out. For you reference, the image is a 9134x6059 white png.

Does anyone know what I can do to avoid this type of crash?

Thanks,
Perldough

In reply to Memory problems with GD by perldough

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