Re: Repeated gimp crashes?

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> On 2022/09/19 12:40, Nam Nguyen wrote:
> > >> 2. shift+s to resize
> > >> 3. resize image with corners
> > >> 4. gimp crashes
> > >
> > > I'm using the default datasize-cur limit for "staff" (4GB) and haven't
> > > been able to provoke it into crashing by doing this yet (tried it with a
> > > 8590x6000 TIFF). Wonder if something else is involved.
> > >
> > > If you do the above from "/bin/time -l gimp" (with raised limits so it
> > > doesn't crash), what's the maximum rss that you see?
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/time -l gimp
> > 20.74 real 5.85 user 1.33 sys
> > 796744 maximum resident set size
>
> hmmmmm. So how does raising datasize help if this is <800MB?
>

gimp could be allocating more than it uses in the end?

-Otto