Hi folks! I just started scanning a couple of negatives at 1600dpi and am trying to work with them in the gimp.
Unfortunately, I don't see the gimp being nice to memory. I have 1G on board, a 768M swap partition, and /tmp has another 950M free. Alls available (swap actually was never used). Now I load ONE image (the scan, approx. 60M) in Gimp and usage of memory by gimp is 40M. *Additionally* Gimp eats up 430M (!!) in /tmp. And if I do some copy/paste-new/save/close, after 2 or 3 turns my /tmp is eaten up. No more space available. 950M eaten to keep ONE image?? This seems to me kind of ridiciulous. Any idea how to cope that? I use image tile size 24M, conservative memory usage (tried without that - same). And please no hints like "get a bigger hd for tmp". This whole swapping while mem _is_ available makes no sense to me. -- Tschoe, http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt - Fingerprint: Jens 1AAB 67A2 1068 77CA 6B0A 41A4 18D4 A89B 28D0 F097
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