Pictures takes 20 seconds to load

[Kugel]

Gimp 2.10.?? (.20?) slowed down opening pictures in two stages, from fast unless from a folder with very many files, to about two seconds, then several seconds, with no known changes to software or disc space.

Installed 2.10.38 in hope of improvement, but It now takes 20 seconds to open a .jpg, no matter the size (30kb or 3mb) or location.

Windows 10.

Will appreciate any help.

[sallyanne]

If you expect it to be faster or have known it to be faster, maybe your computer is getting old or has memory loss. I would check your computer out first. How much is on it?

[Kugel]

(12-20-2024, 01:28 PM)sallyanne Wrote: If you expect it to be faster or have known it to be faster, maybe your computer is getting old or has memory loss. I would check your computer out first. How much is on it?

Certainly was way way faster, until this day, and earlier versions were as well on far less capable and not very stable the cheapest you could get PCs. 

6Gb free space on one HD /where Gimp is), 170gb on the other, but location of files makes no difference. How demanding can it be to open a 200kb picture file? (it finds it fast enough). 

Does 2.10.38 do something the 3-5 year old versions didn't do?

How do I check for memory loss?

[denzjos]

Nothing else running on your PC? Clean the disks regularly with CCleaner or Wise Disk Cleaner. Are there any errors in the register? Use Wise Registry Cleaner or CCleaner's registry cleaner. There is sometimes a lot of crap on PCs with Windows OS, so I recommend checking this first. I'm also a Windows 10 user, I regularly do registry and disk cleaning and there's always a lot of junk to clean up.
Do you often have more than 1 picture open in gimp?
Also some info :
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Why-is...educe-this
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Excess...2-10-24-r2
https://testing.docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gim...urces.html

[Kugel]

(12-20-2024, 05:43 PM)denzjos Wrote: Do you often have more than 1 picture open in gimp?
Also some info :
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Why-is...educe-this
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Excess...2-10-24-r2
https://testing.docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gim...urces.html

Thanks.

Doesn't seem to matter what else running or not, connected to internet or not. 
I have had many (smallish) pictures open at once in the past with same performance whatever the number.
Now with 2.10.38, only one at a time, it takes about 20 seconds every time.
It took about 3 seconds with the earlier version (3-5 years) earlier today. Less than 1 in a not so distant past.

[denzjos]

Sorry to hear that. I did a test with a 12.5 MB jpg file and it took less than 2 seconds to load. I also have gimp 2.10.38 (revision 1). Have you checked with the task manager (press CTRL/Alt/Del on the keyboard) what happens while loading a jpg file in gimp. Check if there are any files that take up a lot of memory.

[rich2005]

Windows ? could be some other application interfering.

Not a solution but what does the Gimp Dashboard report. Windows -> Dockable dialogs (at the bottom) and maybe detach the dock so you can see the state.

   

That is a Win10 VM - nothing special.

[Kugel]

(12-21-2024, 07:07 AM)denzjos Wrote: Sorry to hear that. I did a test with a 12.5 MB jpg file and it took less than 2 seconds to load. I also have gimp 2.10.38 (revision 1). Have you checked with the task manager (press CTRL/Alt/Del on the keyboard) what happens while loading a jpg file in gimp. Check if there are any files that take up a lot of memory.

It now opens pictures in less than a second.  As far as I'm aware nothing has changed, the PC hasn't even been restarted. Confusing. 
Opening Gimp makes memory use go from 57% to 60%, opening a single 4,5mb picture made it go to 62%. 

Will Gimp keep 100s of pictures and changes to them in memory even after it is closed, but shed it after a certain time? Idk how it works, but could this explain it?

[denzjos]

I don't know if it take some memory (maybe rich or ofnuts know) but you can take a look at the document history in the gimp menu :
 Windows / Dockable Dialogues / Document History
At the bottom there is a shredder to shred the history.

[sallyanne]

(12-21-2024, 03:03 PM)denzjos Wrote: At the bottom there is a shredder to shred the history.

I always thought that was a printer until last night