06-04-2017, 06:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2017, 06:43 PM by rich2005.
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I can not help with the Gimp settings, the only strange one is Maximum filesize for thumbnailing 4 MB, I know you have no thumbnails set but reduce the Max filesize to the usual 1 MB.
Do you shut the laptop down or do you just suspend/hibernate it? Is it possible that memory is lost that way? Gimp used to be 'leaky' and lock up memory, not sure what it is like these days.
A couple of comparisons for you.
This is my 8GB laptop running Kubuntu (KDE) and even with a lot going on in the background Gimp takes up about 80 MB.
A Mint 18 (cinnamon) VM with memory set to 4GB. Really basic setup, gives this
So that is what you should expect. I think you need to look at what your system is running apart from Gimp.
Edit: You can try cleaning up memory any time you think necessary. In a terminal
Do you shut the laptop down or do you just suspend/hibernate it? Is it possible that memory is lost that way? Gimp used to be 'leaky' and lock up memory, not sure what it is like these days.
A couple of comparisons for you.
This is my 8GB laptop running Kubuntu (KDE) and even with a lot going on in the background Gimp takes up about 80 MB.
A Mint 18 (cinnamon) VM with memory set to 4GB. Really basic setup, gives this
So that is what you should expect. I think you need to look at what your system is running apart from Gimp.
Edit: You can try cleaning up memory any time you think necessary. In a terminal
Code:
sudo sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3