Sure Eugene, I'd be more than happy to. 
Let's see the local version I run with tests leads to smooth sailing, but 
it runs into problems when run in the background on our servers.

This weekend I'll cut out a small sample and recreate the issue, throw it 
on git and send you a link.

On Sunday, June 17, 2012 12:34:51 PM UTC-4, Eugene HP wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Can you make some test code you're working on, so I can join to debug 
> process.
>
> Thank you.
> Eugene
>
> On Friday, June 8, 2012 5:13:04 PM UTC+2, Mark Essel wrote:
>>
>> I've been bugging TJ on node-canvas (https://github.com/LearnBoost/ 
>> node-canvas/issues/177#issuecomment-6154062<https://github.com/LearnBoost/node-canvas/issues/177#issuecomment-6154062>)
>>  
>> about a code speed up I'm 
>> working on in a fork of his node module. 
>>
>> I found Canvas.toBuffer() to be killing our pipeline resources and 
>> created an alternative that would simply convert from Canvas into an 
>> Image without going through a png buffer/media url. The problem is 
>> that cairo is a mysterious beast, and there's an additional level of 
>> concern about memory allocated within node modules as not to get GC'd 
>> by mother v8. 
>>
>> I was able to test the Canvas.loadImage(image) method thousands of 
>> times on my mac setup (6.18), as well as stand alone tests on our 
>> ubuntu/production servers running the same version of node. But when 
>> the code is run as a stand alone process/server and coordinated by 
>> Gearman I'm getting some "interesting" memory/segfaults. 
>>
>> I've tried recreating the problem and running it with gdb, node_g, and 
>> all the node modules built with symbols and debug flags. But the error 
>> crops up in a lib outside of the source I can get a stack trace for. 
>>
>> Any help, pro tips, assistance, or words of encouragement would be 
>> appreciated.
>
>

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