mikewoodhouse

I figured it had be something related to the local environment or more folk would have said something. It's not a big deal in any case and I bet there are all kinds of weird things occurring in our corporate build with its wacky infrastructure. (You should see what happens with any TortoiseSVN version released in the last year, for example. Actually, you shouldn't - it's ugly.) I dug around in ProcExp a little - a bunch of stuff loads when I check for updates. I'll go deeper next time I'm feeling brave enough...

Since upgrading to Win7/64 & installing PdN 3.5.10 (3.510.4297.28964) I'm seeing occasional runaway memory-grabbing, seemingly associated with checking for updates. Working set runs up to a little short of 4GB (which is the physical RAM installed) and the machine slows to a moderately entertaining crawl. Just ran it again: manually checked for updates. Nothing much happened for 30 seconds or so, then working set started doubling about once per second, reaching 2.5GB before I managed to hit "Cancel". Working set dropped back and then (while I was typing that last sentence) ran back up to 3.1GB. ProcExp reported "Private Bytes" at 4.9GB (that'll be the 64 bits working then?) Just thought someone might be interested - there's an easy workaround: disable auto-checking (although it seemed to have switched itself back on again this morning) and don't use the manual one.

It does kinda have that effect, doesn't it? :wink: I have noticed one small failing: when resizing in both dimensions, it alternates between vertical and horizontal, even if there are more seams to be removed in one dimension, so the excess in that direction are all done at the end. It probably doesn't make a lot of difference though.

While we wait, there's a very reasonable implementation at http://www.thegedanken.com/retarget/ Up- and down-scaling, area protection and removal - it seems to have all the important bits. The price seems right too...

I didn't spot any mention with a quick search, so I hope I'm not duplicating anything recorded previously.... UK PC magazine PC Pro this month (issue 157, Nov '07) has a cover feature of "The Web's Best 50 Free Downloads". #1 is Google Pack. #2 is Paint.NET selected excerpts: "this sparkling gem" "lovingly maintained" "almost everything you'd expect to find in paid-for rivals - and then some." "For us, it just holds the edge over The GIMP"