[Gimp-user] Resizing an image in Gimp is very slow.

[BWK <forums gimpusers com>]

> I use Gimp 2.10.14, & my tile cache size is 6GB. I don't understand
> where the
> memory usage in the status bar is found, but I have my dashboard up in
> toolbox
> and memory is not used up when the slow processing occurs.  The image
> was 11
> layers of 623 GB. But I FLATTENED it, to 58.8GB, & then deleted my
> undo history.
> When I resized it to 1800px's longest size, the progress bar works 2/3
> of the
> way and then stops and then takes 4 minutes or more, at least, to
> resize. The
> dashboard shows no excessive use. I found this problem started when I
> upgraded
> to Gimp 2.10.14. Any one any ideas.?

Big operations take time. Go and make a coffee. I have 32 GB of RAM and a 200 GB
tile cache in SSD. Sometimes the operation takes 5-10 minutes, which is hardly
anything. It might take 2 hours to save as well, but I can do something else
during that time.

-- 
BWK (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)