Re: [Gimp-user] Tweaking performance

[GSR - FR <famrom infernal-iceberg com>]

Hi,
mikael staldal nu (2011-11-15 at 2032.43 +0100):
> On 2011-11-15 17:43, GSR - FR wrote:
> > Yes, look in preferences, you can configure where you want the files
> > to be written; so point to a RAM based FS there. Another trick would
> > be using symlinks to redirect the directory structure (useful for apps
> > that do not allow configuration). Linux tmpfs is backed by swap, so it
> > could hit the disks anyway.
> BTW, why does GIMP have this swap folder? Why doesn't it just
> allocate all memory it needs and let the OS do the swapping?

OS swap is, normally, fixed size, and in some cases even zero (at OS
level it is a cushion, not a fix, and sometimes really bad if the
system becomes unresponsive). With own swapping files, it can swap
more, without affecting other processes, until the data partition
fills up.

GSR