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
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, pixel fairy wrote: It was set to 8, or 10, or 15, I've tried them all, 8 seemed to be faster as that stopped Gimp having to swap to VM or push other apps out to disc. 8,10,15? where do you get these numbers? your tile cache should be alot more than that. I was used

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
D] Subject: Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images Hello all, Yesturday I requested that our friend send me a copy of his image so that I could try the test on my computer at work. (PIII 400 128MB, Matrox G400, WinNT) I chose to test with levels because I adjust levels or curves

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: 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

Re: Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Andrew Kieschnick
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Martin Weber wrote: 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. You should definitely increase your tile cache size from the default 10mb. It should

Re: Performance

2000-02-03 Thread Zach Beane - MINT
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:35:33AM -0600, Elan Feingold wrote: 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

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
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. Instead of guessing at fixed amounts, why not:

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