On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:24:59 +0100, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:11 -0400, Andrei Simion wrote: > >> I run Gimp 2.2 on a Red Hat machine. The Perl scripts delete the images >> that are created by using gimp_image_delete. Even so, the swap file is >> created and it inflates significantly. For instance, after creating 250 >> images its size is of 2.7 MB. > > That is not much and all it shows is that the image processing you are > doing is using more memory than the configured tile-cache-size. I am not > sure if I understand your problem at all... I think as Bill pointed out that was a typo, it should have read 2.7GB, I believe that was confirmed. > >> I would be interested in eliminating the swap file or at least limiting >> its size. I think it should resize itself, but this doesn't happen. > > The swap file only resizes itself when tiles at the end of the swap file > are freed. So you may have to free all tiles before the swap file > resizes itself to zero. If if doesn't do that, then your script leaks an > image or a drawable somewhere (or it calls a function that leaks). > > Sven > I agree there's not much point in having a complex script like 630 lines of proprietary code and reporting it as a GIMP bug. If there is an leakage issue here , that this rather extencive use is bringing to light, it certainly ought to be fixed but a simple test case that can be published is needed. I think Kevin Cozens, who is familiar with the script, is looking at that. /gg _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
