<my two cents>
I run GIMP (1.1.15) on a PII 400 with 384 megs of ram, 16 meg Matrx G400
at 1600x1200 24 bit. I deal with 1600x1200 images often, since I take
frequent screenshots for themes.org. Even with what should be a kick ass
system, I still find that GIMP slows down significantly with such large
images. I might (if I could afford it) try a dual processor (P3?) with
512 megs of ram - I would hope that such a configuration would be able to
handle large images fast.
</my two cents>
Anyway, good luck!
Greg
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Erunantion wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2000, Rui-Tao Dong wrote:
>
> > Thanks for all the replies. I am still wondering if anyone has seen
> > Gimp really really fast with large images on reasonably cost machines?
> > (100K SGIs are out of the question :-)
>
> see below.
>
> > A little bit more detail on my settings. A work, I have a 200MHz PPro
> > (RH 5.2) with 384MB memory and a dedicated 100BaseT line to an 266MHz
> > PII (WNT4) running VNC as my X terminal. The video card is on a
> > Matrox Corona framegrabber (4MB Millennium II equivalent). I do
> > different kind of image processing at work. 1kx1k grayscale is very
> > fast with this setting (mostly custom C++ code). But 1600x1200 color
> > image is slow. (Gimp 1.13)
> >
> > At home, I have a 200MHz PPro (RH 5.1) with 32MB memory. I use
> > XFree86 SVGA server on a 4MB Millennium II (at 1600x1200x16bit). The
> > machine is very fast with everything else. However, Gimp with
> > 1600x1200 color image is quite slow, even with simple repainting.
> > Should I play with backstore and how do I turn it on?
>
> Well, my first thought is - get more ram. though what exactly is this
> backstore thing?
>
> > I have another headless 166MHz Alpha UDB with 80MB of memory. Gimp
> > 1.04 is understandably slow.
>
> as i noted above - a friend has gimp running on an alpha w/256mb ram. it
> runs quite fast (much better than my PII 350 w/128). i'd say get an alpha,
> or maybe a PII 450/500(?) with at least 128mb ram. anything over that
> should be more than enough to run gimp reasonably fast in high-res.
>
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rui-Tao (x679)
>
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