On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Sven Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:26 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jade <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm running the latest Ubuntu and it's probably more of a hardware issue >> > than >> > a software. When I say "Gimp crashed," I mean that it froze up and then >> > exited. I don't know what happened besides that. I have a super old >> > computer >> > with three quarters of a gig of ram and it probably was having a hard time >> > processing such a big image and shut it down. I don't really know. I was >> > working with a 3000 x 3000 image with several layers; it was probably too >> > much >> > for the PC to handle, not Gimp. The file's gone, either way. :( >> >> Ooh, that _is_ a big image. What you can do is repartition the hard >> drive to give Linux more swap space. It probably ate up all the swap >> space and killed itself. Even with the large swap space (say 4 or even >> 8 G) it will be super-slow (RAM is always faster, obviously), but at >> least it won't die easily. > > 3000x3000 is not that large. How much RAM do you have and how is the > tile-cache size configured in GIMP?
I guess it might be on an older machine OP mentioned. As for myself, I've got 2G RAM, and 1G swap space (big mistake, I know) on a 64-bit linux. I sometimes run out оf memory/swap on a image that is like a little smaller than 3000x3000 when I have more than 20 layers and couple of hours of work on it. Tile cache is at 1024M. Regards, -- Branko Vukelić [email protected] [email protected] Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
