GIMP not responding on high file sizes.

[techie1484]

(05-15-2019, 08:01 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:  If not set high enough, Gimp will self-limit its RAM usage and this will slow it down.

How much higher does it need to be set???

My RAM is 4 GB.

In the preferences dialog of GIMP,Tile Cache Size is set to 2048484 KB.

I also observed some oddity in disk space consumption while GIMP was executing plugins.

I found it odd that the disk space consumption was 100 % in Task Manager even when there were no applications running(besides the background processes).

Initially, the issue was due to Windows updates causing this consumption due to heavy I/O on a file that Windows updates access.(forgot to copy down the file name).So i installed updates from control panel and restarted my PC. Now, the disk consumption was reduced to single digits(in percentage) when there were no applications running.

After starting GIMP, I still was able to observe oddities in disk consumption when performing operations in GIMP.

GIMP would freeze with the message  "not responding" when disk consumption hits "100 %". And there were no other applications running besides Task Manager and Resource Monitor.

Task manager screenshot:


As we can see, Disk consumption is at 99 % when only GIMP is running.

Screenshot of Resource Monitor:



Screenshot in full size:

https://ibb.co/2d1Cw1n

Screenshot 2 of Resource Monitor:



Screenshot 2 in full size:

https://ibb.co/hL0Gtzr

Screenshot 3 of Resource Monitor which has write operations:



Screenshot of resource monitor with write operations in full size:

https://ibb.co/C7YBg0X

I looked up on Pagefile.sys and it happened to be a buffer on disk if RAM is fully incapacitated. And 4 GB RAM is quite big.

http://m.majorgeeks.com/content/page/eve...e_sys.html

Since the working directory of GIMP on my PC is C:, I have deleted files and freed space in C:. But still GIMP displays "not responding" and consumes 100 % disk while executing GIMP plugins.

Is the issue because of plugin closed/terminated in an inconsistent state???Cuz i think 100 % disk consumption for one application seems odd.

@rich2005 :

Thank you for your suggestions. As i inferred above, if the issue is not with disk consumption when executing plugins in GIMP, We will go command line if all other options are exhausted.