Thanks - will take a look at the settings... I have started checking that other
apps are closed while I Gimp - that definitely helps

>**
>AFAIK GIMP's memory usage is mostly controlled with 
>Edit>Preferences>Environment>Resource consumption>Tile cache size.
>When
>images require more memory Gimp moves the data to disk. Note that this
>is virtual memory, if you set it to something much bigger than your
>RAM
>(or more accurately the available RAM once the system and other apps
>are
>taken in account) Gimp will just swap like a regular app, so it is 
>usually best to set it to something smaller than your RAM.

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