Hi list, I run FreeBSD 6.2 (2 gig ram) and use gimp-2.2.17 for editing my large (10000x10000pixels) photos. This works when the tile cache is set to 256MB but this is not enough for fast editing. When I set the tile cache to 512MB or more it stops with error: GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 16384 bytes I checked in top while the gimp was opening the image and I still had 400MB free before it stopped (not counting my 4000MB free swap).
I have another computer with Fedora 7 and less RAM (1 gig) and here this does work, tile size is set to 512MB and editing is rather fast. I found this old thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg07633.html wich a bit the same. So my questions are: -Is there some magic setting wich allows the tile size to be bigger ? -Can't the gimp be configured to not save to disk after every edited pixel ? If you put one pencil dot on an image it takes 4 seconds before you can do the next. -Is there a way to work in ram only ? Can I for example buy 2 additional gig and then force the gimp to use only this memory and give me a messages "out of memory" when this does not work ideas ? kind regards below is the full output: $ gimp --debug-handlers --stack-trace-mode always scan13.tif GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 16384 bytes aborting... gimp: terminated: Abort trap: 6 #0 0x28cea6cd in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x28cc96ad in waitpid () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x28c75242 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #3 0x28a3ad79 in g_on_error_stack_trace () #4 0x080646b4 in ?? () #5 0x083ace00 in ?? () #6 0xbfbfd560 in ?? () #7 0x00000000 in ?? () #8 0x24075e00 in ?? () #9 0x00000000 in ?? () #10 0x00000000 in ?? () #11 0x00000000 in ?? () #12 0x00000000 in ?? () #13 0xbfbfd584 in ?? () #14 0x28d631a0 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #15 0xbfbfd5b4 in ?? () #16 0xbfbfd5b4 in ?? () #17 0x00000282 in ?? () #18 0x28c904b4 in ?? () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #19 0xbfbfd5a8 in ?? () #20 0x080646e1 in ?? () #21 0x00000001 in ?? () #22 0xbfbfd5b4 in ?? () #23 0x00000006 in ?? () #24 0x28c904b4 in ?? () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #25 0xbfbfd980 in ?? () #26 0xbfbfd6c0 in ?? () #27 0xbfbfd5c8 in ?? () #28 0x0806421d in ?? () #29 0x28d631a0 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #30 0x09042d00 in ?? () #31 0xbfbfd5d8 in ?? () #32 0x28c8e3d1 in __error () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 (script-fu:13073): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
