Gimp crashing

[eternalsufi]

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.

[Kent Paul Dolan]

> 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?

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)?

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)?

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.

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.

[iplaymusick]

--- In gimpwin-users@..., "eternalsufi" <eternal.sufi@...>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>

How much ram does your system have?  Also consider upping the amount
of virtual memory that your system uses and/or adjusting these
settings in theGIMP.

[eternalsufi]

--- In gimpwin-users@..., 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.