(07-15-2019, 03:21 PM)tmanni Wrote: This can be due to the small quantity of memory (2 GB of RAM to run a windows 8 is very low) : your windows should begin to use virtual memory, slowing down the whole computer.
You can observe what happens in GIMP by adding the Dashboard dock : click on the small arrow in the right part of any dockable area to open the menu, then Add Tab > Dashboard.
Observe the Memory and Swap graphs before and during the freeze.
I usually have about 1.7 GB used ram, and does not go beyond that. The only thing that changes, is the CPU usage increasing just a little (10%), but as I wrote in my post, the PC is not slowing down or anything. In fact, I can for example browse youtube or do other things while gimp is unresponsive.