Thanks to all who responded with useful comments.
It isn't entirely clear from the comments when gimp starts up, but the
tiling cache should indeed be almost as large as physical memory,
allowing some for other uses (such as the OS).
Increasing to 1500Mb on a 2G system was a huge improvement. I
Hi,
Dov Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I suggest modifying the documentation to read something like:
Increasing tile memory cache will continue to yield benefits until you
totally saturate physical memory. If you can afford to give nearly all
your physical memory to gimp while you are
