creating thumbs in safe mode of php

[Fking]

The PHP on the server where i host is in safe mode, i'm using script which automaticaly creates and saves the thumbs for image galleries (with ImageMagick). As i understand in safe mode, i can use only 8mb memory. I guess that's why it can't generate the thumbs for bigger direcotories (with a lot of images) but works just fine for smaller ones.

Is there a way to make it generate the thumbs in portions? How i can detect how much memory i will need for the processing of a folder?

[onion2k]

8 meg should be enough.. unless you're leaving something in memory..

[Fking]

well i'm calling shell_exec($path_imagemagick." parameters")
for each pic separately
how i can clean the memory after each call?

p.s. i know that by default this function is disabled in safe mode, but in my case it's enabled

[Weedpacket]

Since every call to imagemagick is taking place as a separate process (PHP tells the shell to start imagemagick, imagemagick starts up, processes one image, then shuts down), then there shouldn't be any memory still being used afterwards. If there is, it represents a memory leak in the operating system.

So memory shouldn't be an issue with regards to processing lots of images. Maybe the script is just running out of time (it only gets thirty seconds unless you specify otherwise)?

[Fking]

well i haven't specified time, how to do it?

p.s. i think the script is executed to the end, because it generates the page it should generate, just there are no thumbs....