Re: Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

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Øyvind Kolås wrote:

> If you need to restrict the amount of memory GIMP is permitted to use
> (before swapping tiles of the image out to disk and being slower) you
> should adjust the tile-cache-size in GIMP's preferences.

Well, you do want GIMP to use the memory if it needs it.

> Apart from memory leaks which are bugs, GIMP/GEGL are telling the used
> memory allocators that memory is no longer used - lower levels of the
> stack however do not free up used memory. By design allocators tend to
> keep freed memory around for reuse in future allocation calls,

But this is not very social to other programs running on the same machine, is
it?  I have noticed this behavior of GIMP myself before, and also thought this
is not how it should be...
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