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slow launch pt2

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slow launch pt2 Kim Cascone 26 Feb 18:05
  slow launch pt2 Michael Schumacher 26 Feb 18:43
  slow launch pt2 Sven Neumann 26 Feb 19:24
slow launch pt2 Jernej Simon?i? 26 Feb 19:27
  slow launch pt2 Sven Neumann 26 Feb 19:33
Kim Cascone
2009-02-26 18:05:54 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

slow launch pt2

I'm working on OS X 10.4.11 and using GIMP 2.6.4 when I launch GIMP it literally takes 5 or 6 minutes to fully load and be functional
I realize I have a lot of filters and brushes which adds to the load time
but is this a known issue?
it seems like the splash window spends most of its time on 'looking for documents'
and is there any way to shorten this launch time? I searched through the posts and wasn't able to find any mention of this
thanks in advance

I just timed the slow launch
- from 2xclicking GIMP to full load of a new session it took 11 minutes...that's eleven minutes as in go have a cup of coffee and read the morning paper and then come back and check email

doesn't this seem excessive to others? on my Ubuntu netbook it takes all of 20 seconds BUT it doesn't have all the brushes, scripts and filters I have in the OS X version

20 seconds vs 11 minutes?!

Michael Schumacher
2009-02-26 18:43:45 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

slow launch pt2

Von: Kim Cascone

I just timed the slow launch
- from 2xclicking GIMP to full load of a new session it took 11 minutes...that's eleven minutes as in go have a cup of coffee and read the morning paper and then come back and check email

doesn't this seem excessive to others? on my Ubuntu netbook it takes all of 20 seconds BUT it doesn't have all the brushes, scripts and filters I have in the OS X version

20 seconds vs 11 minutes?!

So what about grabbing the tools that do tell you what a program does, and try to investigate? The problem won't solve itself, and especially not without the effort of someone who is affected by it...

Michael

Sven Neumann
2009-02-26 19:24:28 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

slow launch pt2

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:05 -0800, Kim Cascone wrote:

I just timed the slow launch
- from 2xclicking GIMP to full load of a new session it took 11 minutes...that's eleven minutes as in go have a cup of coffee and read the morning paper and then come back and check email

doesn't this seem excessive to others? on my Ubuntu netbook it takes all of 20 seconds BUT it doesn't have all the brushes, scripts and filters I have in the OS X version

GIMP starts in less than five seconds here. Anything longer than that is too long. If it takes minutes, that is completely unacceptable. So please go ahead and use the appropriate profiling tools for your platform to find out where that time is spent.

Sven

Jernej Simon?i?
2009-02-26 19:27:51 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

slow launch pt2

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:24:28 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

GIMP starts in less than five seconds here. Anything longer than that is too long. If it takes minutes, that is completely unacceptable. So please go ahead and use the appropriate profiling tools for your platform to find out where that time is spent.

It takes 11 seconds on my machine (with the splash screen appearing after 3 seconds) when I haven't run it before (if I ran it already, it takes 3-5 seconds).

Sven Neumann
2009-02-26 19:33:51 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

slow launch pt2

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 19:27 +0100, Jernej Simon?i? wrote:

It takes 11 seconds on my machine (with the splash screen appearing after 3 seconds) when I haven't run it before (if I ran it already, it takes 3-5 seconds).

It probably makes a difference if you are running a GNOME desktop where most of the libraries used by GIMP are already in memory.

Again, providing profiling data for your platform would most probably help to improve the startup time for you.

Sven