Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:30:18 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: the Gimp and pre11 |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:48:57PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote: > On Mit, 2001-09-19 at 05:44, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > I am editing 6 Megapixel files (2800x2048) and things like rotations seem to > > have delays that were not happening with previous kernels. My box has 320M. > > Seems that pre11 does not swap out as much as pre10 so Gimp has less to work > > with. > > Since GIMP uses it's own memory management using a tile approach I > hardly doubt this is caused by swap usage if you defined the maximum > amount of memory GIMP should use correctly; though it may be that the > kernel swaps out tiles that the tilemanager considers to be active (and > thus in memory) this behaviour should not happen as long as the kernel > is not to eagerly swapping out memory and considering that the tiles > are referenced quite often it should not swap them to disc at all IF > the recently introduced algorithms work correctly. > > Anyhow, just to make sure, would you please mention much memory you > assigned to GIMP and what else is running on the system? >
Also, try a test with pre11 with swap turned off, and see how that affects your system.
Please note: I am not recommending running without swap under normal circumstances... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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