Stuart Henderson writes: > So it's the usual "software assumes it has the whole machine" problem, > so the crash is easier to hit when you have lots of RAM. > > I think we should cap that based on rlimit rather than hardcoding to > a fixed value in the config file, and probably also set to max like we > do in various other programs in base and ports. > > How about this?
Yes, I like this approach. It works in my testing, after I undid these settings in ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/gimprc. This would explain why it set it 5 GB and 20 GB for the limits initially for my 40 GB RAM.
