Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

["Guillermo Espertino (Gez)" <gespertino gmail com>]

On 18/07/12 10:45, Aaron Paden wrote:
> So I mostly use MyPaint, but I'd like to be able to do some things in 
> gimp, too. But gimp is way too slow on this computer. Especially 
> trying to open large images like MyPaint encourages, I'll have to run 
> to another tty to try and kill the process so I can continue to use my 
> computer. I've got an old Pentium 4 with only about half a gig of RAM. 
> A bit behind the times, but especially on Linux it's generally fast 
> enough to get the job done.
>
> Is there anything I can do to help improve performance? I don't have 
> much experience. I doubt I could write anything any faster. But maybe 
> I can do something to help identify bottlenecks? Anything I can do to 
> help, I'm game.

You can try turning off color management in your preferences (there's a 
bug in GIMP 2.8 that makes painting tools and selection widgets slower 
when color management is active) and you can try with different tile 
memory settings but I'm afraid your system specs are low for high 
resolution painting in a program like GIMP.

hth,

Gez.