On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:14:21 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: > On 2/5/19 5:35 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: >> El 2/2/19 a las 9:58, Ofnuts escribió: >>> The fact that the memory isn't marked free doesn't mean it is >>> unusable. Tried in Gimp 2.10 on Ubuntu: >>> >>> - load 5 20MPx Jpegs: memory is 1.35GB >>> >>> - close all: memory still at 1.35GB >>> >>> - load them again: memory is 1.4GB >>> >>> - close all: memory still at 1.4GB >>> >>> - load them again: memory is 1.4GB >>> >>> - close all: memory still at 1.4GB >>> >>> So the memory seems reused... >> >> I was thinking about your tests and the values seems to be a bit >> strange: I mean, I you load 5 images and Gimp takes 1.35GB Memory, why >> when you close all the images gimp still taking 1.35GB instead of less >> than? >> >> In the same way, if you load again the same images, why Gimp consumes >> more memory and its memory consumption rises from 1.35 to 1.40... and, >> again, when the images are closed the memory does not get back to a >> lower value. >> >> I think this values can corroborate my theory about Gimp lack of >> memory release I suffer and which is absolutely needed when working in >> professional environments. >> >> Why Gimp does not free the memory? >> Any idea? > > If memory was truly leaked, I would have seen 1.35, 2.7, > 4.05... Since there is no significant memory increase, we can assume > that this memory is reused. For the rest, see Øyvind's answer. It's possible that some memory was leaked, just not all of it. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
