[Gimp-developer] Is there any way to free Gimp memory and avoid restarting it?

["jEsuSdA 8)" <listas jesusda com>]

Hi!


When editing several images in Gimp (10Mpixels each one), Gimp consumes 
memory little by little (sometime not so little by little ;) ) and this 
memory does not get free instead the images where closed.


So, after few time using Gimp, it consumes ALL MEMORY available and I 
must close and start again.

Is there any way to force Gimp to free memory?

Why if I open a image, when I close it after editing the memory used by 
Gimp for this image is not liberated?

I mean, if I load an image and the Gimp memory consumption increases 
400MB, and I open another one (another 400MB more), I expect when I 
close the first one, Gimp should free the 400MB of memory reserved to 
the first image edition. Is something working wrong?


This is a very important think to me because I usually do long editing 
session where I could retouch about 50 images and, obviously is very 
annoying to close and restart Gimp every 5 or 6 processed images.


Thanks a lot.


GIMP 2.10.8 over Debian GNU/Linux (Testing)