[Tilesathome] Problem

[Matthias Julius]

"Ed Loach" <ed at loach.me.uk> writes:

> I got a Glib error: gmem.c:136:failed to allocate 165781616 bytes aborting... error (from inkscape) and closing the program resulted in lots of 
> libpng warning: tEXt: CRC error
> messages scrolling past.
>
> If it were a complex tile I might just understand it and dismiss it as one of those things, but
> http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?layer=tile&z=12&x=213&y=1104
> looks empty to me.
>
> Why did inkscape want quite so much memory?

Even if there is nothing to put on, Inkscape still needs to render a
8192 x 8192 pixel image if you don't use striped rendering.  This is
192 MB of raw data.  Don't know how efficiently Inkscape is doing
that.

Matthias