Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: > Hi list, > > I run FreeBSD 6.2 (2 gig ram) and use gimp-2.2.17 for editing my large > (10000x10000pixels) photos. > This works when the tile cache is set to 256MB but this is not enough > for fast editing. > When I set the tile cache to 512MB or more it stops with error: > GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 16384 bytes > I checked in top while the gimp was opening the image and I still had > 400MB free before it stopped (not counting my 4000MB free swap). > > I have another computer with Fedora 7 and less RAM (1 gig) and here this > does work, tile size is set to 512MB and editing is rather fast. > > I found this old thread: > http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg07633.html > wich a bit the same. > > So my questions are: > -Is there some magic setting wich allows the tile size to be bigger ? > -Can't the gimp be configured to not save to disk after every edited pixel ? > If you put one pencil dot on an image it takes 4 seconds before you can > do the next. > -Is there a way to work in ram only ? > Can I for example buy 2 additional gig and then force the gimp to use > only this memory and give me a messages "out of memory" when this does > not work > > ideas As the original poster of that thread, let me tell you what I know. 1. No magic. I assume there's something bad happening between glib and the FreeBSD memory allocation routines, but whatever it is carried across 5.3 to 6.2. I'm pretty sure I logged a bugzilla case, but in the end, I switched to a linux platform and lost interest. I get the feeling that the GIMP devs don't use FBSD and as long as it builds and runs, they're not all that interested in what seems like corner cases. 2. You could try setting undo level to 0 at the risk of not being able to recover from any mistake 3. nope, at least not that I've found 4. nope
Don't bother with film-gimp or whatever they're calling the project these days. It does HDR, but their big memory handling is even worse. Turns out that the images projected in theaters are actually not all that hi rez. Your eye fills in the missing spots frame by frame. If you built KDE for your desktop, you might want to check out Krita as an image editor. Last I looked at it (which is maybe 9 mos), I still liked the GIMP better, but it (krita) handles images completely differently, so it might be worth a shot. Didn't get a chance to run any of my scans through it. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
