gimp:large tile sizes and large images on Freebsd

[bram]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:16 +0200, Bram wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had problems with the gimp on freebsd when using large tile sizes.
>>
>> See:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-user%40lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/msg13040.html
>>
>> I've been thinking about it and I don't want to use linux just for this 
>> one thing, so I would really like to get this bug fixed.
>> I have no problem using the gimp for these pictures, it works better 
>> than krita (wich crashes, seems to be a problem of a lot of the kde apps).
>> So is there any chance you guys could look into it, I am not a C 
>> programmer and have no idea where to begin.
>> If the bug gets fixed by you guys I would like to do a small donation to 
>> the freebsd-gnome project, is this possible ?
>>
>> How to reproduce the bug:
>> set tile size to 512 or higher, open the gimp , open a very large image
>>     
>
> You might try increasing the max data size to 1 GB and see if it helps.
> To do this, add the following to /boot/loader.conf, then reboot:
>
> kern.maxdsiz=1073741824
>
> Joe
>
>   
Nice it worked, now how can I make a small donation for the 
gnome/freebsd guys ?

thanks a bunch