On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:58:48AM +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> This might be my computer not having enough resources.

Most likely.

> I have a 4096 px image from Park XE-100 AFM I set a mask on one image and
> as I duplicate it to do another mask the gwyddion stops working when I save
> it.

This means at least 0.5 GB of data in memory.  During saving, it will
essentially double...

> Message is:
> Gwyddion.exe:55824 GLib-ERROR**:../glib/gmemc:168:failed to allocate
> 536870912 bytes
> 
> The main issue I have  is that it corrupts the saved copy and drops from a
> 131Mb file to a 0Kb file. Losing very little information but If it happens
> after a lot of data analyis it could be a problem. At the moment I
> cautiously save my work with save as...

I will try to make sure that the file is only overwritten successfully
and otherwise the old version is kept intact.  However, the program
termination with insufficient memory does not seem to be fixable
(without changing library APIs, i.e. not practically fixable).

Regards,

Yeti


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