Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.9 doesn't seem to release RAM

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 03/11/2016 12:46 PM, Jon Tait wrote:
> Yes, the way GIMP uses GLIB's memory allocation needs to be reviewed.
>
> This problem was reported before in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759874 (re-assigned to GEGL,
> though I believe this is really a GIMP problem).
>
> Try running GIMP thus:
>
> export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=200000
> export MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=128*1024
> gimp-2.9  ....

Thanks! that does seem to fix the problem of GIMP not releasing the 
memory for closed images.

Best,
Elle