Which is the scheme script you are using? It needs to be fixed anyway, as I posted on my other e-mail. JS -><- On Wednesday 17 November 2004 23:51, Joseph Heled wrote: > Thanks for all of you who clarified this. My setting are > Minimal number of undo levels - 20 > Maximum Undo Memory - 64M > > I guess the two are in conflict for large images. I like a fairly > liberal number of undo's, yet I did not realize the size can > balloon in a such a way and hit 1.2G after a few applications of a > scheme script (which makes liberal use of new layers), which brings > gimp and the system to a long minutes of swapparoa fun. > > So, is there a way to limit the size per image? Or a better way to > set up a machine with 750MB of memory and a large swap? > > Thanks, Joseph > > Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 23:02, Joseph Heled wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I open a 3038x2012 photo (gimp 2.2-pre1). > >>The caption below the image says 46.9 MB > >>I add a layer with Layer/New Layer. The caption says 70.3 MB > >>I delete the layer. Caption stays 70.3 MB > >>I Layer/New Layer again. The caption says: 93.7 MB > >>I delete the layer. Caption stays 93.7 MB > >> > >>Should I believe the numbers or not? I understand the gimp might > >> be allocating memory and keeping it, but it does not mean the > >> size of the image keep growing indefinitely? What am I missing? > > > > The information is still ther, as the layer deletion can be > > undone. > > > > Open the "undo history" dialog, and hit the "clear undo history" > > button - that is what you were missing. :-) > > > >>Thanks, Joseph > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Gimp-developer mailing list > >>Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gimp-developer mailing list > > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer