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Gimp fills up memory - ChameleonScales - 07-17-2020 On my Debian 10 system, Gimp's memory usage builds up as I open/close files and never goes down until I quit Gimp, leading it to fill the memory and use the swap even though I have 64GB of RAM and each xcf file is less than 1GB (and I only open one at a time). Is there a setting I can change to make Gimp free memory when an image gets closed? RE: Gimp fills up memory - Ofnuts - 07-18-2020 No setting for this. This shouldn't happen. And it doesn't happen on my 2.10.14 or 2.10.20 versions on Ubuntu, at least on a test image (20000x20000, two layers filled with plasma). Could be a left over debug option or a bug in some system library. What build are your using, the regular .deb from Debian, the flatpak, something self-compiled? RE: Gimp fills up memory - ChameleonScales - 07-18-2020 Ok, thanks. To give more context, the systems (actually 2 of them, probably even 3) on which this happens have been dist-upgraded without getting a fresh install since I think Debian 7 (not my doing in case you're wondering), while another one I've recently fresh-installed doesn't have this problem. So I guess it would be better that I try harder to convince the system administrator of the importance of doing a fresh install from time to time rather than spend time digging to the root cause of this -one of several- issues and finding a solution provided there is one other than a fresh install. In other words, nevermind! |