Freezes during scaling

[FireTiger86]

Hello,

I have the same problem, and it started only recently. I've been using GIMP for years and this has never happened before. Now it seems to happen nearly all the time when scaling images, and I don't think it really makes any difference how big the image is or what the scaling factor is. It's not a hardware or memory issue, as far as I'm aware, and I noticed that some other tasks appear to be slower than they used to, though that might be unrelated. Exporting as .png, for example.

• When you scale, do you see any CPU going steady at 100% (ProcessMonitor, Performance tab)?
  

No.

• How big is the image in pixels?
  

Doesn't seem to matter, though most of the time something between 1 and 4 Megapixels, I think.

• How many layers?
  

Happens with few or even one layer as well as with many.

• How much memory does it need (status bar at the bottom of the image window)?
  

Don't know exactly, but it happens with all kinds of images, as I said.

• How much tile cache size is defined in Preferences>System resources (should be at least 8GB given your RAM)?
  

8GB (I also have 16 GB RAM)

• Is OpenCL enabled (Preferences>System Resources>Hardware Acceleration)?
  

I can't find this option in my version.

• Did you test your hardware?
  

You mean for errors? Sure, as far as I know it works.

• Are you scaling up or down? i.e. are you trying to make your drawing bigger (more pixels) or smaller (less pixels)?
  

Usually down.