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 memory leaks which are bugs, GIMP/GEGL are telling the used > memory allocators that memory is no longer used - lower levels of the > stack however do not free up used memory. 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 before, and also thought this is not how it should be... _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
