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Failing to read large files

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#915 opened on Jul 24, 2020

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Description

I'm trying to use Jimp to process images that are about 70-100 MB in size. However, I get the following error

// image is 87.7 MB
Jimp.read('big-image', (err, img) => {
  console.log(err)
})

> Error: maxMemoryUsageInMB limit exceeded by at least 226MB

Is there any way around this?

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Investigate the maxMemoryUsageInMB configuration and explore options for streaming or chunked processing to handle large files.
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