I just found my (wimpy laptop) machine running slowly after processing a few (4) images with gimp from current svn (with several scales, a crop and several saves) then closing all the image windows. I ran a quick memory check and discovered that gimp was using 51Mb despite not having any images open. I played around with gmemusage to get a feel for what was going on. GIMP 2.3 uses between 33.9 and 35.0 Mb on startup (no images loaded, and I don't know why it isn't always the same). For comparison, 2.2.13 uses about 13.9 Mb at startup, so it's increased by a factor of about 2.5 just for the base app, before images. Each time I load an image then close the image window without doing anything, gimp grows by some variable amount, ranging from half a Mb to 2Mb (perhaps related to the size of the image). If I do operations on the image before closing it, these cause it to grow more: doing a crop and a scale almost always makes it grow 2Mb even with a relatively small image. This seems like a memory leak (there's no usable history once an image is closed, right? so basically it's back in the same state it was before, except using more memory). Or is there useful information that's being saved about each image? I know there's one name and thumbnail added to the Recent Images list, but surely that doesn't account for 2Mb. Nobody on #gimp knew much about it when I asked, and there was some agreement that it sounded like a leak. However, I also see this ~2Mb growth in 2.2, so if it's a memory leak, it's not a new one. So my questions are: - Is the growth that comes from loading an image, doing operations on it then closing the window expected? What is this memory being used for? - Is anyone concerned about gimp's minimal profile having risen from 14M to 35M? If there's agreement that there's a problem I can file a bug and maybe dig in more detail into where the memory's going, but I wanted to ask here first. ...Akkana _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
