I was just bitten by this. Gimp crashed leaving a 23GB swap file. I didn't
notice, and my computer proceeded to backup this 23GB file causing me
problems that took a very long time to track down.
This could happen even without a crash: Just leave gimp running overnight
(say, processing some large image - exactly the type of image that would
use a swap file) and the swap will be backed up.
This file needs to be in /tmp or /var/tmp
The home directory is the wrong place for this.
For myself I fixed it by editing /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc but this should be
fixed for everyone.
-Ariel
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