Re: Gimp crashing

--- In [email protected], Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@...>
wrote:
>
> > From: "eternalsufi" <eternal.sufi@...>
> > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:18:24 -0000
> 
> > Using WinXP home with the latest gimp (2.4.4) and
> > it keeps crashing.
> > There is no rhyme or reason as it crashes during
> > various operations.
> 
> One possible cause for such "random" crashes is
> running out of memory after seemingly random amounts
> of operations. WinXP does not handle "out of memory"
> situations at all gracefully.
> 
> 1) Do you have enough physical CPU memory to support
> GIMP?
1 gig of memory
> 
> 2) Do you have enough virtual memory "swap" space
> allocated (WinXP expands that allocation "as
> needed", but only if your memory control
> settings allow that to be the case)?
4 gigs of virtual memory
> 
> 3) Have you allocated sufficient "tile memory"
> within GIMP (this is the memory GIMP uses so as not
> to have to pull too much of a picture at once into
> its working area, if I understand things correctly,
> which it does by breaking the image up into tiles
> and retrieving them as needed from something like a
> database)?
This I'll have to look into.
> 
> It's worth remarking that WinXP "home edition" is a
> pretty wimpy version even of MS-Windows. An upgrade
> to the "professional" or "media center 2005"
> editions of WinXP might help, too.
Not an option atm.
> 
> That list above doesn't limit that your problem has
> any of several other possibly causes, like a bogus
> dynamic link library file in your link path with a
> name identical to one used by GIMP but hidden from
> GIMP by the bogus one, but at least memory size
> problems provide an easier place to start looking.
> 
> xanthian.
>
Thanks for the reply.



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