gimp swap file
Cliff Planck
creates a gimpswap*** file in the users partition. I have been working on
large arial photography and my swap file has filled my partitions. When the
partition fills during a color correction, several errors occur causing a
system lock. Is there any way to stop gimp from using 100% of my partition
for swap and locking my computer?
What I have been doing is changing one color and saving the file then
closing gimp and restarting. This makes several changes very time
consuming.
My system
P2 450
128m 100mhz ram
2.0gb total space for linux
Typical file sizes of 65mb or larger.
Any suggestions as to what to do to make gimp more memory and partition
friendly would be great. I am new to using linux and especially gimp, but
the power of the program has been a savior at this point, I just want it to
be less partition size dependant.
Thanks,
Cliff
Adam D. Moss
> Is there a way for the gimp to use the linux swap? I have noticed that it
> creates a gimpswap*** file in the users partition. I have been working on
> large arial photography and my swap file has filled my partitions.
GIMP will use as much 'system' memory (including system swap space) as
you tell it to, and only then fall back to its own swapfiles.
So you probably want to raise the 'tile cache size' amount in
the preferences menu to a size which is reasonable for your
system's memory and swap space - providing that the work
you need to do will actually fit in this amount, the swap files
which GIMP creates will remain small or nonexistant.
Note that if this amount is still insufficient and GIMP spills
over to its own swap space anyway, you may get a severe performance
hit.
You can also keep the amount of memory which GIMP requires to
a minimum by changing the preference option for the number of
'undo levels' - lower it.
As an aside, for repetitive changes which you seem to be doing,
GIMP may not be the ideal tool - perhaps you would have more joy
with ImageMagick.
Cheers,
--Adam