On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:41:03PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > > On 05/05/2017 06:01 PM, Casey Connor wrote: > > Hi -- I'm trying to do some simple work on a 0.5GP image in GIMP 2.9.5 > > (on Linux). (Image is ~23k by 22k pixels, 16bit RGBA). > > I don't think this will solve the problem you described, but I have > found that clearing the undo history after every operation done on open > files frees a lot of memory in cases where there is /almost/ too much > data for the system to cope with. > > Another possibility: Crop the images you are trying to merge down to > just the bits that overlap, process those, then add the cropped parts > back in. Again, this might not be practical in your situation, but it's > all I can think to suggest from similar problems I have run into. > > If friend with a more powerful box will let you do this thing on that > machine, a USB stick and a copy of the portable version of the GIMP > might do the trick... > Yeah, the xcf files in 2.9 are big. I'm tempted to suggest adding a huge swap file - not sure if it would help (watching a system swap heavily is not pretty).
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