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+# Disable Openslide to prevent sqlite segfault in forked parallel workers
+# Requires libvips 8.13+
+Vips.block "VipsForeignLoadOpenslide", true if Vips.respond_to?(:block)
+
+# Limit libvips to 4 threads for each thread pool. Default is #CPUs.
+Vips.concurrency_set 4
+
+# Limit libvips caches to reduce memory pressure.
+#
+# Do not disable entirely since libvips relies on some caching internally.
+# (When we disabled caches, we hit a ton of JPEG out of order read errors.)
+Vips.cache_set_max 10               # Default 100
+Vips.cache_set_max_mem 10.megabytes # Default 100MB
+Vips.cache_set_max_files 10         # Default 100