Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, at 4k x 3k for most things you do see the line comming down. its slow for hue/sat/lightness adjustments, and fastest for curves. i may try this on windows, but i think some of the others on this list have already beaten that horse enough. Someone already mentioned it, but I want to

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread gimp
surrounded by them.. 64megs is a small amount of ram for images that heavy. im surprised your getting decent performance from photoshop. It is a small amount, now I've gotten over the levels problem I've tried a few more things in gimp, and ended up halving the resolution of my image to try

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
I was used to adjusting photoshop to prevent it swapping, and tried to do that with GIMP, the above figures were based on my idea that X wanted 30 megs and gimp seemed to want about 10 or so, leaving about 20 left for the image. All wrong, terribly wrong. I set the cache to 30 megs last night

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jon Winters
Hi, I'm forwarding this from gimp-user for anyone who is not on that list. There was a question regarding performance and configuration but I can't seem to get Gimp to outperform Photoshop. TIA for any configuration tweeks that may help me. (so far the only thing i've done is adjust the tile

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Jon Winters's letter: I'm forwarding this from gimp-user for anyone who is not on that list. There was a question regarding performance and configuration but I can't seem to get Gimp to outperform Photoshop. TIA for any configuration tweeks that may

Re[2]: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Hyperborean
on okay would finish it. -George -Original Message- From: Jon Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:03:22 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd) Hi, I'm forwarding this from gimp-user for anyone who

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jon Winters
Andy Thomas wrote: What version of gimp are you using? The recent CVS versions had a real bug in the updating of previews when using the levels/curves stuff. On the advice of Andy and others I disabled the layer pre-vue images and things speeded up quite a bit. (they also mentioned this is

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread Jon Winters
Hyperborean wrote: Could it be that Photoshop does the previews only on the visible pixels? snip I'm with George on this one! Pre-vue mode should be visible pixels only. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/jon/ "Everybody Loves The GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/

Re: Performance

2000-02-05 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 4 Feb, Raphael Quinet wrote: I wouldn't be too sure about that. On a system that I was previously administering (students' network at the university), I have seen some users that were using /var/tmp or /tmp to store their applications while they were logged in, and deleted the stuff

Re: Performance

2000-02-04 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Kelly Lynn Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:33:31 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you have a shared maschine the best would be to let the administrator choose how much memory each user will get because users'll ALWAYS try to get what they can

Re: Performance

2000-02-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:52:30 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Quinet) said: I disagree. This would only encourage some users to re-compile their own version of the Gimp in a private directory in order to get around the hardcoded limits. Frankly, I disagree. Systems where admins are

Re: Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Martin Weber
I use SuSE Linux 6.2. I have 128 MB RAM. I use the default values for tile caching. I have a EIDE IBM 6,4 GB and 10 GB. I use on both a 128 MB partition as swap. Martin On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 08:13:56AM -0800, Martin Weber wrote: Here some performance tests on an Intel Celeron 333 with 128 MB

Re: Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Andrew Kieschnick
help performance. later, Andrew Kieschnick

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Zach Beane - MINT
with will work with all systems, and also on a given system if the user dumps more memory in, the Gimp will automagically have better performance. I agree that magic numbers are foolish to use, but I do think that the method for choosing a default should be carefully planned. Your system sounds good

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 3 Feb, Arcterex wrote: I think that this was discussed some time back and the conclusion was that if you have 5 users on your system all using gimp and each using 50%... well, you see where that could be a problem. In that case you could adjust the value manually. But bear in mind: If

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 3 Feb, Raphael Quinet wrote: I think that asking the user is the best solution in any case, because you can hope that the user has some vague idea of how much memory is or will be available on the system he is using (shared or personal computer). This will not work in all cases (e.g.

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:33:31 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you have a shared maschine the best would be to let the administrator choose how much memory each user will get because users'll ALWAYS try to get what they can even if it makes no sense It might be a good idea to have a

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:33:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a shared maschine the best would be to let the administrator choose how much memory each user will get because users'll ALWAYS try to get what they can even if it makes no sense This is none of our

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Michael Natterer
Sven Neumann wrote: You should definitely increase your tile cache size from the default 10mb. It should help performance. Shouldn't we increase the default for the tile_cache_size? GIMP was shipped with the default of 10MB years ago. Memory is cheap nowadays and I guess we can expect

RE: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Elan Feingold
dumps more memory in, the Gimp will automagically have better performance. Just my $0.02, -Elan

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Miles O'Neal
Sven Neumann said... | |Shouldn't we increase the default for the tile_cache_size? GIMP was shipped |with the default of 10MB years ago. Memory is cheap nowadays and I guess we |can expect the average user to have more RAM available. I'd suggest setting |it to 32MB. I'd say go for it. We could

Performance

2000-02-02 Thread Martin Weber
Here some performance tests on an Intel Celeron 333 with 128 MB: BMP file, grayscale (8-bit), 1x7500 loading with ImageMagick 5.1.1: 20 min loading with GIMP 1.1.15: 10 min loading with Photopaint 8: 1 min 39 sec loading with Photoshop 5: 14 sec saveing with GIMP 1.1.15: 2 min 25 sec