Fethi BELGHAOUTI wrote: > i'm using gimp in network and in --no-interface and > --batchmode ! > i never exit gimp, and it generate me too many > swapfiles ! > how can i do to purge ths files without exiting Gimp ? This is a shortcoming in the GIMP swap management -- the size of the swapfile is every byte from the start of the swapfile to the position of the end of the last in-use tile in the swapfile. The swapfiles are trimmed automatically where the last span of the file is 'free' space, but only in this case (no compaction is done when there are large unused regions anywhere but the end of the file). The resulting fragmentation causes some degree of swapfile bloat and thrashing. This fails to impress me but is not going to change at this point (ie. GIMP's general mem/swap handling has already improved greatly since 1.0.x and it would be sort of neat to see 1.2 released before my monitor-radiation-baked eyes fail with old age). You could try looking into the memory access patterns of your scripts themselves -- the order in which you create and destroy resources can have direct bearing on the swapfile usage. You might also want to up your tile cache and/or add more system swapspace so GIMP leans on that to a much greater degree -- I expect that performance would probably be a bit worse in high-mem-usage conditions, but your OS is also probably better at keeping memory defragmented and reclaimed than GIMP's hand-rolled swapsystem is (cop out). -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ adam@xxxxxxxx http://www.foxbox.org/ "Shut up, Donkey. Talking animals have no place in comic strips."
