Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-30 Thread Mogens Jaeger
Geoffrey wrote: Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:22 Sven Neumann wrote: You can control the amount of memory that GIMP uses by tuning the tile-cache size setting. GIMP will then use a swap file instead of causing an OOM situation that might cause it to be killed by the OS. Of

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-30 Thread Michael Schumacher
On a Suse 9.2 self-compiled Gimp 2.2 with 1 Gb of Ram and 1 Gb of swap, and app. 30 Gb free on the harddrive where Gimp has it's swap/cache. I have been working on some hollyday photos, all about 3,5 Mb of size, to crop, rotate and others to make them ready for showing on the tv. All were

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-30 Thread Geoffrey
Michael Schumacher wrote: On a Suse 9.2 self-compiled Gimp 2.2 with 1 Gb of Ram and 1 Gb of swap, and app. 30 Gb free on the harddrive where Gimp has it's swap/cache. I have been working on some hollyday photos, all about 3,5 Mb of size, to crop, rotate and others to make them ready for showing

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have attempted to duplicate the problem as well. I'm running SuSE 9.2 and re-installed gimp 2.0. The only thing I can find that creates such a problem is when gimp takes up too much memory and the OS kills gimp. I have 9.2 on a laptop with 768 mb

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-29 Thread Hans Henrik Hansen
Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:22 Sven Neumann wrote: You can control the amount of memory that GIMP uses by tuning the tile-cache size setting. GIMP will then use a swap file instead of causing an OOM situation that might cause it to be killed by the OS. Of course things will become rather slow as

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-29 Thread Geoffrey
Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:22 Sven Neumann wrote: You can control the amount of memory that GIMP uses by tuning the tile-cache size setting. GIMP will then use a swap file instead of causing an OOM situation that might cause it to be killed by the OS. Of course things will

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Geoffrey
Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:17:47PM -0500, Peter Jon White wrote: Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: This evening I installed GIMP 2.0 under SuSE 9.2/KDE3.3.0 I wanted to add some text layers to a .jpg-file - five layers altogether. When I attempted 'save as' GIMP crashed, and

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Geoffrey
Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: Thanks for prompt reply - I'll (attempt to) look into mentioned updates. BTW: What is XCF?? :) I might add the information that prior to my first 'save as'-attempt(s), the computer began acting rather 'sluggishly': Even simple(?) tasks took VERY long time to accomplish

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Jon White
Geoffrey wrote: Normal Gimp behavior seems to be to not work much at all. And normal behavior on the support forums seems to be to ignore requests for assistance. I'm sorry you feel that way. Ignore him, nothing but a troll. Really? If so, it's the first time in the history of the internet

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Geoffrey
Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:26 Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: XCF is the GIMP native format that allows all the information you create during editing (layers, paths, etc) OK - thanks. How many pixels are these JPEGs? The original picture (background layer) is 542 kB. With the

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Geoffrey
Peter Jon White wrote: Geoffrey wrote: snip Ignore him, nothing but a troll. Really? If so, it's the first time in the history of the internet that a troll has signed his posting. That's utter crap. troll As used on the Internet: 1) As a verb, the practice of trying to lure other Internet users

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Jon White
Geoffrey wrote: Peter Jon White wrote: Geoffrey wrote: snip Ignore him, nothing but a troll. Really? If so, it's the first time in the history of the internet that a troll has signed his posting. That's utter crap. troll As used on the Internet: 1) As a verb, the practice of trying to lure

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Geoffrey
Peter Jon White wrote: Different than what? If you mean different than the three original posts asking for assistance, they got no response at all. Perhaps that's what you mean by better results? It was only when I made my critical post that I got any reply. But as I suggested in that post,

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Jeffrey McBeth
Quoting Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter Jon White wrote: Different than what? If you mean different than the three original posts asking for assistance, they got no response at all. Perhaps that's what you mean by better results? It was only when I made my critical post that I got any reply.

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Jon White
Jeffrey McBeth wrote: I'm working through Peter's problems, I hope help him on this. I have so far been unable to reproduce his issue, even with the image he has provided, which BTW, counts as one of the more disconcerting images I've seen in a while. What do you do for a living? I build

RE: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Kalle Ounapuu
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Jon White Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:17 PM To: Jeffrey McBeth Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving Jeffrey McBeth wrote: I'm working through

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Peter Jon White wrote: But what you call wild comments may be helpful to the people developing The Gimp and who are soliciting donations. For example, I tried for over an hour to figure out the bug reporting function on teh website. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I'm sure it's easy for

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Kalle Ounapuu wrote: For example, I tried for over an hour to figure out the bug reporting function on teh website. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I'm sure it's easy for a programmer... I agree with that... after XX number of seconds going through that thing myself, I gave up.

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-28 Thread Geoffrey
Jeffrey McBeth wrote: Holy cow guys, you are both being overly rude. Calm down. I'm working through Peter's problems, I hope help him on this. I have so far been unable to reproduce his issue, even with the image he has provided, which BTW, counts as one of the more disconcerting images I've

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-27 Thread Hans Henrik Hansen
Thanks for prompt reply - I'll (attempt to) look into mentioned updates. BTW: What is XCF?? :) I might add the information that prior to my first 'save as'-attempt(s), the computer began acting rather 'sluggishly': Even simple(?) tasks took VERY long time to accomplish - it felt like running

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-27 Thread Hans Henrik Hansen
Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:26 Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: ... XCF is the GIMP native format that allows all the information you create during editing (layers, paths, etc) OK - thanks. ... How many pixels are these JPEGs? The original picture (background layer) is 542 kB. With the four added

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Hans Henrik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This evening I installed GIMP 2.0 under SuSE 9.2/KDE3.3.0 GIMP 2.0? Please use a recent version such as GIMP 2.2.4. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu

[Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-26 Thread Hans Henrik Hansen
This evening I installed GIMP 2.0 under SuSE 9.2/KDE3.3.0 I wanted to add some text layers to a .jpg-file - five layers altogether. When I attempted 'save as' GIMP crashed, and all my work was gone! :( One more attempt ended same way - finally I got through by saving one layer at a time! I am

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-26 Thread Peter Jon White
Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: This evening I installed GIMP 2.0 under SuSE 9.2/KDE3.3.0 I wanted to add some text layers to a .jpg-file - five layers altogether. When I attempted 'save as' GIMP crashed, and all my work was gone! :( One more attempt ended same way - finally I got through by saving one

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:17:47PM -0500, Peter Jon White wrote: Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: This evening I installed GIMP 2.0 under SuSE 9.2/KDE3.3.0 I wanted to add some text layers to a .jpg-file - five layers altogether. When I attempted 'save as' GIMP crashed, and all my work was gone! :(