dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:28:37PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > | Hi folks! > | > | I just started scanning a couple of negatives at 1600dpi and am trying > | to work with them in the gimp. > | > | Unfortunately, I don't see the gimp being nice to memory. I have 1G on > | board, a 768M swap partition, and /tmp has another 950M free. Alls > | available (swap actually was never used). > | > | Now I load ONE image (the scan, approx. 60M) in Gimp and usage of > | memory by gimp is 40M. *Additionally* Gimp eats up 430M (!!) in /tmp. > | > | And if I do some copy/paste-new/save/close, after 2 or 3 turns my /tmp > | is eaten up. No more space available. 950M eaten to keep ONE image?? > | This seems to me kind of ridiciulous. > | > | Any idea how to cope that? I use image tile size 24M, conservative > | memory usage (tried without that - same). > | > | And please no hints like "get a bigger hd for tmp". This whole > | swapping while mem _is_ available makes no sense to me. > > gimp does that because it is such a memory hog, and it wants to be > nicer to other apps. Well, that's why I happen to have 1G RAM, I wanted to be nicer to apps :-) Can't I somehow say "Well, take up to 700M from RAM, then file"? That would be decent. Or something like "take 70% of available ram". > How many levels of undo have you enabled? 5, but I reduced it to 2 now. I see the point of keeping multiple pictures in its swapfile. > 60MB is a big picture, and if you do some operations, gimp must save > the old state of the image so that you can undo the operation. Thus > lots of memory/swap usage. If you reduce the size of the image, or > the resolution, it would decrease the resources required to process > it. That's actually what I'm trying to do. I have a six-negatives image (I'll also try to reduce that) and just want to split it into single images. I never thought it'll be that hard to do... -- Tschoe, http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt - Fingerprint: Jens 1AAB 67A2 1068 77CA 6B0A 41A4 18D4 A89B 28D0 F097
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