On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 06:58:09PM +0100, Simon Budig wrote: > Austin Donnelly (austin@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Idea: if the size is set to 0, make it mean "guess something good". > > Out of the box gimp can come with it set to 0, and we just make the > > algorithm pick something appropriate. That's the hard part. > > Just to start a discussion: What about trying to detect if it is a > "private" machine with less than 5 regular users and then using > 80% of the physical memory? What? All our users have login names starting from nobody000 to nobody999! :) Also, 5x80% = 400%.. a hypothetical situation of all 5 users using Gimp at the same time :) Just joking, this might have a point but it is not trivial. But at least tell me what _I_ should use to avoid excess swapping and even crashing X.. Like I said, I have 256MB. X eats like 90MB (high res, high depth), Netscape bloats too (60MB is just a 'normal' case) etc.. so say, I have something like 100MB for Gimp, sometimes a bit more (Netscape will get swapped out when I work on gimp) Someone mentioned the tile-cache should be something like half of the ram available, does that make sense? Thanks, Tuomas -- .---( t i g e r t @ g i m p . o r g )---. | some stuff at http://tigert.gimp.org/ | `---------------------------------------'
