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Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image

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Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image Jeff Trefftzs 13 Mar 06:57
  Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image Manish Singh 13 Mar 08:46
   Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image Jeff Trefftzs 13 Mar 20:30
Jeff Trefftzs
2005-03-13 06:57:54 UTC (about 19 years ago)

Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image

I recently upgraded to gimp-2.2.4 (and .3 before that), just after I installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3 as my new latest-and-greatest operating system. I'm running it on an AMD K6 processor, 450 Mhz, 256MB of RAM, plenty of HD space.

Whereas in gimp-2.0.x images would load promptly, I find that with 2.2.x that there is an approximately 40 second delay between the time the progress bar says the image is ready and the time it appears on the screen. I use the Gimp a lot for tweaking digital photos, usually loading the original photo and then immediately duplicating it so I don't mess up my 'negative'. (I'm sure you can guess why). But now I find that it takes 40+ seconds to load the original image (1600x1200 px, maybe a couple of hundred MB), and another 40 sec or so to duplicate it.

Eeek! What's happened here? I have tried boosting the tile cache t0 160Mb and stripping the executable, but with no result. Has anyone else seen this problem, and have y'all any suggestions? Since I haven't noticed anyone else having this problem, it's probably something I'm doing (or not doing), but I don't know what it might be.

All advice gratefully welcomed -

Manish Singh
2005-03-13 08:46:45 UTC (about 19 years ago)

Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:57:54PM -0800, Jeff Trefftzs wrote:

I recently upgraded to gimp-2.2.4 (and .3 before that), just after I installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3 as my new latest-and-greatest operating system. I'm running it on an AMD K6 processor, 450 Mhz, 256MB of RAM, plenty of HD space.

Whereas in gimp-2.0.x images would load promptly, I find that with 2.2.x that there is an approximately 40 second delay between the time the progress bar says the image is ready and the time it appears on the screen. I use the Gimp a lot for tweaking digital photos, usually loading the original photo and then immediately duplicating it so I don't mess up my 'negative'. (I'm sure you can guess why). But now I find that it takes 40+ seconds to load the original image (1600x1200 px, maybe a couple of hundred MB), and another 40 sec or so to duplicate it.

Eeek! What's happened here? I have tried boosting the tile cache t0 160Mb and stripping the executable, but with no result. Has anyone else seen this problem, and have y'all any suggestions? Since I haven't noticed anyone else having this problem, it's probably something I'm doing (or not doing), but I don't know what it might be.

Upgrade to the latest gtk2 in Fedora. GTK+ versions prior to 2.4.14 had rather inefficient GtkUIManager code. The stalls you are seeing is the time it takes the build the large number of menu items GIMP has with its image windows.

Supposedly a GIMP package which actually has a hard dependency on gtk2 >= 2.4.14 will show up in Fedora updates soon.

-Yosh

Jeff Trefftzs
2005-03-13 20:30:46 UTC (about 19 years ago)

Gimp-2.2.x very slow to load image

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 23:46 -0800, Manish Singh wrote:

Upgrade to the latest gtk2 in Fedora. GTK+ versions prior to 2.4.14 had rather inefficient GtkUIManager code. The stalls you are seeing is the time it takes the build the large number of menu items GIMP has with its image windows.

Thanks, Yosh. That did it. Whew!