[Gimp-developer] Gimp memory leak

[Andrei Simion]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 22:06 -0400, Andrei Simion wrote:
> 
>> This is what I obtained after the Gimp server crashed. That's it, it 
>> doesn't create the swap file after the memory allocated for it finishes. 
>> Is this a configuration problem?
> 
> Sorry, but I don't understand that question. You are aware of how GIMP's
> swapping works and how it relates to the configured size of the
> tile-cache, aren't you? I have the impression that there are some basic
> misunderstandings here.

OK, the tile-cache-size refers to the amount of pixel data. But the 
question still remains: why the Gimp could crash?

I noticed that the memory used by the Gimp server when batch generating 
images goes higher and higher and after no physical memory is left, then 
the Gimp server crashes.



> 
> 
> Sven
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