Insane RAM-usage

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2021-10-28 12:57:31

Hello there!

I've been noticing extreme RAM-usage lately. Pixelmator uses 50+ GB of RAM... I don't know what to do.

Anyone got any idea how to solve this problem?
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2021-10-29 15:48:18

Hi Matthias! Are you working with larger documents by any chance — multi-layered files or just images with a larger pixel count? And do you use any ML tools in your editing, like ML Super Resolution, for instance?
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2021-10-31 22:41:34

Yes I do. The RAM-usage got a little bit better since the newest update. Now it's using up to 12GB of RAM. My MacBook only has 8GB of RAM built in, so it's using swap memory... I don't know how healthy that is for my SSD?
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2021-11-01 13:52:21

To be honest, unless the images you're working on are very very large, the app shouldn't be using that much RAM. What's the pixel size of the last image/composition this happened with?
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2021-11-01 16:17:49

Oh okay, already figured it out xD
I have no idea why, but my last project was 22623 × 32000 xDD

Thank you anyways :)
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2021-11-02 10:00:04

:sweat_smile:

It happens!