Lag time, CPU usage and failing on thumb creation

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On Windows 2008 IIS7 there is a lag time of 10 to 20 seconds were the 
CPU time gets to 100% until generate the resized/cropped image.
2. When there is 2 or more images being resized the scrip usually return an 
error.
3. When there are a lot of images being resized at the same time, the 
memory gets all used and the server freezes and needs to be rebooted.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be 
displayed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest

Please provide any additional information below.
You can try it here. There is no thumb for this picture stored
http://hypescience.com/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-
content/uploads/2009/01/patrick-swayze-t.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1

Thank you,

Marcelo

Original issue reported on code.google.com by celso....@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2009 at 1:02

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Happens to me too

Original comment by clc122...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2010 at 8:54

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Happends to me as well.

Reloading the page usually have all the thumb loading.

However, navigating the site and coming back to a page with a lot of thumb will 
have
som of them failing to load...

Original comment by mgpi...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2010 at 11:13

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please update to the latest version of the script and post again if you are 
still having problems.

Original comment by BinaryMoon on 16 Sep 2010 at 9:10

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