Hi, Michael <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have compiled the 1.3.8 release after finally getting hold of the > required files (I only have a modem so they were a bit big for me) and > grepped the resulting binaries to check that fopen64 was there. If I > set the image size to 65536 x 65536 the file size indocator says 0 kb, hmm, that's a bug in the user interface. Could you file a bug-report for it, please ? > after messing with the sizes a bit more it seems that the indicator > wraps around at 4096 MB. If I then open a file it seems that this > version does things the other way and fills up the memory first and > then attacks the kernel's swapfile so I couldn't check Gimps swap file > because it didn't seem to create one before the kernel killed it. I > must say that I was impressed at the speed at which the Gimp filled up > the memory it was very fast. hmm, we didn't do any significant changes to the way GIMP handles the tile cache so it should actually behave just like GIMP-1.2. The only difference should be that it should now be possible to use a cache of size > 2GB and that the core should be able to deal with swap files larger than 2GB. I say "should" since these changes haven't seen much testing yet. Salut, Sven
