On 12/16/2009 01:18 AM, Orion Vianna wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having problems with gimp and image files of 150mb and larger - psd > and tiff format (I haven't tried others). > Gimp is taking a couple of seconds to show the selection from the > eclipse tool for example. Moving a layer is real slow & most other > operations takes a long time to render. I disabled compiz but the > problem persists. > > My machine has 6gb ram & Intel core Duo p9700 2.8ghz. Should be enough > right? I have 3gb set on title cache size on gimps preferences which > improved a bit but the performance its far from being usable. > > Anyone knows any tricks to make gimp more responsive? a 150mb file is > really not that large...
Hmmm... I always thought 150 MB image file was huge. :)
Have you looked at what the memory footprint of gimp is when it's
running with this image?
-Sean
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