[Tilesathome] Renderability

[Jochen Frieling]

Hi,

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 4:53 PM, Jochen Frieling <J.Frieling at gmx.de> wrote:
> > The funny thing is, all of the RAM (2GB) gets eaten up by inkscape,
> > but none of the the swap space is touched at all. Right at the moment
> > of using 2GB RAM, it crashed.
> > Shouldn't Linux memory management use swap space just like RAM?
> > Maybe this exposes a problem in inkscape, not being able to use swap
> > correctly, or the like.
> 
> Is this a 32-bit machine? If so, then you've just used up all your
> address space. 4GB max minus 1GB for the kernel, lose some more for
> the application and all the libraries, stack,etc...
> 
> There are certain things which really need 64-bit machines: not for
> the processing speed, but for the address space.

Oh, yes. You are so right. It is a 32-bit system. That'll have to change
very soon! Thanks for pointing that out.

So, to Jarkko's conclusion
> Looks like current memory requirement is 2 Gigabytes of RAM (just for inkscape)

we'll have to add
"... and 64 bits address width"

Greetings,
Jochen


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