[split] GIMP crashes randomly

[rickk]

(02-12-2023, 10:13 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: How much swap space have you got on the system? What is your tile cache size? I ask this because you are on the low side of RAM 

I had to "wise up" a bit in order to respond to those questions, here is a screen shot made immediately followiing a stroked path.

The Gkrel tool thingie indicates 7875 MB memory installed, with 6605 MB "free"   and 4096 MB swap available (none in use) As you can see from  the CPU timeline, the CPU got a good work out.

On the other side, the Gimp dashboard, you can see that the cache  nearly maxxed out during the operation,.. claiming 2.9 G used out of the 3 allocated, before settling back down to 820 M after the stroke concluded. As a curio I set the cache up to 4 G in Gimp preferences, and the app would crash immediately upon initiating the stroke operation..... Heretofore prior the cache had been set at 2.0 G,   with 1.9 used during the stroke operation...so perhaps my bumping it up a gig will help going forward?

Just as a footnote, but Gimp was really swamped during the stroke operation   all the dashboard timelines seized for the duration of the stroke, and then spit out the data accumulated during that time, after completion (which is why I couldn't give you a meaningful screenshot during the operation....only afterwards)b  Gkrel did not seize up during this time, it just kept on ticking, through out the entire procedure.