well i may just indicate a couple of tricks that sometimes help 1) the first is obviously in case of apparent freezing do nothing...let a chance to gimp to process all data even if that may take (i.e if not sufficient Ram) a very long time
So do not click or do nothing (including use of other SW )for a while Crashes at least for bundled tools and plugin are rare, and usually reported by popping out error message..if no error messages pop out good chances that Gimp/the OS is simply too busy to process data and so can't be responsive to other users input, or do nothing else for a while 2 Also start Gimp from console in verbose mode may help... in case of apparent freezing a look to the console output may help to know if gimp is busy to slowly process a big amount of data or if something wrong happened and waiting will be only delusive ############################################## A extreme case from my experience i used gimp to do some complex mapping operations (creating 300 additional interpolated layers for a animation) on a already very heavy image That totally frozen not only gimp but all the OS for all the afternoon..anyway i decided to not arrest the apparently frozen PC before going to sleep And the morning after i had a nice surprise everything was correctly rendered. .note was a extreme case ,and the result of a wrong procedure..final size of the SAVED image was absolutely unreasonable (more then 6 GB .and much more needed to reopen with gimp ) But is just a example to explain that freezing may be only apparent even if nothing happens for hours > >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 > > -- photocomix (via www.gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
