GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 142920
gimp 1.2.3 crashes on editing/creating large images
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When I try (on linux box) edit or create large image (cca 80000x60000 pix) gimp crashes with no error or warning message after cca 3minutes. gimpswap is on cca 30GB partiton with no system limits. system mem is 750MB system swap partiton 1GB. gimpswap file is exactly 2048MB large. I would except at least some error messge, or some definition in source code (something like MAX_SWAP_SIZE), which I did not find. better would be to set max swap size in config menu.
The 2GB limit is a known limitation of gimp-1.2. gimp-2.0 doesn't have this limit and since gimp-1.2 is not any longer maintained your best choice is to update.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74478 ***
Of course Gimp 2.0 will not let you create a 35 GB image either, but it will at least give you a confirmation dialog before it tries.
Why should GIMP 2.0 not let you create a 35 GB image? Sure, at some point the 3GB process limit will become a problem since there's quite some memory that can't be swapped out to the GIMP swap file. But this could be worked around by using a 64bit machine.