Why is there not enough space?

Question

Image processing

I open a 200 MB jpg file, it says not enough space, the question is what place? ops - no! I see that 3 gigabytes is not loaded? I have a 20 GB swap file, what resource is missing? and how to solve this problem? Thank you!

Answer 1

I take a 260 Kb jpg file, convert it to bmp.
It turns out a file of 6.2 Mb in size - a difference of 23 times.
That is, if I converted a 200 MB file, it would take up 4.6 GB of space.
Approximately such transformations are performed by the standard Windows Paint, and it apparently does not have enough space in RAM to unpack your file.
Apparently he is trying to reserve a place in the RAM for unpacking, but it turns out that there is not enough space.
How to solve the problem? - try another graphics editor.