Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread Ofnuts
On 2/5/19 5:35 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: El 2/2/19 a las 9:58, Ofnuts escribió: The fact that the memory isn't marked free doesn't mean it is unusable. Tried in Gimp 2.10 on Ubuntu: - load 5 20MPx Jpegs: memory is 1.35GB - close all: memory still at 1.35GB - load them again: memory is 1.4GB - c

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread C R via gimp-developer-list
Does GIMP clear undo memory associated with images that have been closed (without closing GIMP)? Thanks for the great answers, everyone. I'm learning a lot about GIMP memory management here! -C On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 9:14 AM Ofnuts wrote: > On 2/5/19 5:35 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: > > El 2/2/19 a l

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:14:21 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: > On 2/5/19 5:35 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: >> El 2/2/19 a las 9:58, Ofnuts escribió: >>> The fact that the memory isn't marked free doesn't mean it is >>> unusable. Tried in Gimp 2.10 on Ubuntu: >>> >>> - load 5 20MPx Jpegs: memory is 1.35GB >>> >>> - c

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread Diogo Piçarra via gimp-developer-list
I think you should open a bug report: https://www.gimp.org/bugs/ Robert Krawitz escreveu no dia quarta, 6/02/2019 à(s) 13:34: > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:14:21 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: > > On 2/5/19 5:35 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: > >> El 2/2/19 a las 9:58, Ofnuts escribió: > >>> The fact that the memory is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Øyvind Kolås wrote: > If you need to restrict the amount of memory GIMP is permitted to use > (before swapping tiles of the image out to disk and being slower) you > should adjust the tile-cache-size in GIMP's preferences. Well, you do want GIMP to use the memory if it needs it. > Apart from mem

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

2019-02-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 18:23 +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote: > By design allocators tend > > to > > keep freed memory around for reuse in future allocation calls, > > But this is not very social to other programs running on the same > machine, is > it? I have noticed this behavior of GIMP myself be