On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:48:48PM -0500, Orion Vianna wrote: > What is enormous? Are you saying the resolution on the file is > unnecessary even for something like a 60x60 canvas print? >
I'm saying, as others have, that a 150 meg file @ 12k square is freaking enormous. That will crush nearly any system you have to process it. Excessive or not is a judgement call, but it doesn't surprise me AT ALL that you've got speed issues. You don't say if your hard drive is thrashing. From a pure computational standpoint, doing anything w/ that image is going to take a LOT of cpu power. Since it's 150 meg compressed on disk, expanding to 12k pixels square @ whatever color resolution internally represented, plus the drawing copy, plus the undo layers, plus any graphical layers... you're looking at multiple gigs at least, so if you have less than 4 or preferably 8 i'd expect an image that size to thrash your swap VERY heavily. I don't think gimp is smart enough to play app-level swap games; some apps are. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "I'll be using the claw end of yer basic crow bar, but ya could use any kind of hammer or pry bar--just be sure ya get it blessed by a licensed exorcist BEFORE ya start the project." -- This Old Exorcism
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