good morning, On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:54:19PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Friday 23 January 2004 14:29, Marc Dver wrote: > > >Can someone recommend ways of speeding up Gimp on a WinXP Pro > > > machine? I'm using GTK+ 2.0 and the stable version of Gimp (the > > > development version won't install on my machine because it has a > > > AMD K6-2 450 processor). When I use the bucket tool, it takes a fw > > > minutes before it fills, during which it freezes. It never > > > crashes, but takes a while to perform the operation. > > > > > That sounds like you are out of memory and using the swap to me. I've > > had it occur here with half a gig of ram. How much ram to you have? > > A very important question that should always be looked at when it > comes to memory is: "What is your setting for the tile-cache size?". > If you don't choose a reasonable value here, GIMP cannot make > optimal use of the available memory. > GSR from this mail list wrote an excellent document on how to set the tile cache size: http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/unix/howtos/tile_cache.html
the weird thing is, while it was written for linux, it seems to work for any computer i have had the luxury to use or observe. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
