On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:26 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jade <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote: > > I'm running the latest Ubuntu and it's probably more of a hardware issue > > than > > a software. When I say "Gimp crashed," I mean that it froze up and then > > exited. I don't know what happened besides that. I have a super old computer > > with three quarters of a gig of ram and it probably was having a hard time > > processing such a big image and shut it down. I don't really know. I was > > working with a 3000 x 3000 image with several layers; it was probably too > > much > > for the PC to handle, not Gimp. The file's gone, either way. :( > > Ooh, that _is_ a big image. What you can do is repartition the hard > drive to give Linux more swap space. It probably ate up all the swap > space and killed itself. Even with the large swap space (say 4 or even > 8 G) it will be super-slow (RAM is always faster, obviously), but at > least it won't die easily.
3000x3000 is not that large. How much RAM do you have and how is the tile-cache size configured in GIMP? Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
