Hi all! Linux Debian unstable + The GIMP 2.6.5 editing an image of about 4000x3000 pixels creating and destroying layers trying to find the best sets for a effect. At one point the OS was become unresponsive and at the bottom bar of GIMP, the displayed size showed more than 1,4GB. Then I´ve typed CTRL+S to save and after waiting about 15 minutes I´ve pressed the reset button.
After restarting, the file had 0 size. I had to recover it from a backup, losing all the work I did and saved in the file previously in the morning.(*) The questions are: How can I control the memory usage of The GIMP? I supose that tweaking the different settings in environmet prefences, but I am not sure how to count it, should I sum max mem for undo to max mem for cache in order to get the maximum of memory I am allowing to The GIMP? Are there other settings affecting the memory usage? Will a feature request of "indirect saving" be taked in account?, Say save to a newtmp file, then copy/move the main file to oldtmp file, then move newtmp file to main file then remove oldtmp file. This should ensure that a system crash in the middle of a save operation will be recoverable. And finally, will a feature request of auto-backup be taked in account? (*) This is not exactly true, as I´ve said, I was trying and _discarding_ settings and procedures to get a desired effect, so after recovering the file from the backup I was able to get the final result in about 30 minutes of work :) Yours Pere _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
