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Bug 526122 - Reduce memory usage for brushes and patterns
Reduce memory usage for brushes and patterns
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 330099
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.4.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
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Reported: 2008-04-04 10:29 UTC by Torsten Neuer
Modified: 2008-10-30 20:11 UTC
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Description Torsten Neuer 2008-04-04 10:29:04 UTC 
GIMP permanently loads all brushes and patterns into memory on startup.
This can be quite a lot if you happen to have a larger collection of brushes you want to work with. At one point, I found GIMP having allocated about 512MB of system RAM for a couple of (admittedly large) brushes.

My suggestion would be that GIMP should load only thumbnails of brush and pattern images upon startup, which would significantly reduce memory usage. Only one brush and pattern (the currently used ones) should be loaded completely.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2008-04-04 10:47:56 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 330099 ***