On Sunday 05 October 2008, fremobit wrote: > In my opinion the needed memory for an image of the dimensions 15000px > to 15000px at 8bit depth is 214,57MB but Gimp allocates 1,1 GB. This is an old discussion, but your case seems simpler than the usual discussion/guesses: 8 bit means 8 bit per channel (RGB, and in some cases also alpha) 215MB sound as if you did calculations for an image with only one channel, such as a grayscale image.
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