GEGL syntax in Gimp is much more resource intensive then two years ago
For the past several years I've been writing all my resource intensive GEGL syntax in Gimp's GEGL Graph on Linux Mint 20 with Flatpak Gimp 2.10.32 that used the systems GEGL from early 2021. Linux Mint is a distro that goes several years without new software packages. Meaning the GEGL version I was using was from early 2021. Now I am on Fedora 38 and GEGL is much more sensitive about errors reporting; almost every typed key goes to Gimp's warning center. Even backspaces. Both typed keys and backspaces I make in Gimp's GEGL Graph adds 100mb of memory according to Gimp's dashboard.
This syntax was originally under a gigabyte of used memory but after I kept typing "test test test' and other incorrect commands in GEGL graph It jumped to over 5 gigabytes of memory and if I keep doing it earlyoom will crash Gimp. I don't know if the GEGL graph on my old distro did this but I assume it did not. I cannot go back and test. Let me finalize by saying GEGL Graph was always resource intensive on my old machine and on uncommon occasions did get earlyoom to crash it. but now it is happening all the time. I do not believe the version from two years ago did this.
Attached is an image showing GEGL syntax including bogus commands to increase memory, Gimp's dashboard, the warning bar and a bird.
I think the best solution to this problem would be an option in Gimp that disables GEGL from filing internal errors as from what I understand every error filed requires generating an internal log and that might be causing the 100mb in disk space jump for every key typed. Please make it where typing in incorrect commands and back spacing things doesn't add 100mb to Gimp's memory.