I rather like Tim's idea, since it works even on systems where large file support is not available. If his approach works, I see no reason not to use it. Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Newsome" <nuisance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] new tile-swap.c > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:56:57PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > > A while back I wanted to open this huge satellite image I downloaded > > > from NASA, and the Gimp required more than 2Gb of swap space. It > > > didn't work, so I wrote a new tile-swap.c which makes additional > > > swap files once the current one hits 1Gb. > > > this shouldn't be necessary since the current code should handle large > > swap files (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74478). > > But that requires file system support for >2Gb files. My patch doesn't. > > Tim > -- > Tim Newsome nuisance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wiw.org/~drz/ > And we have just one world / But we live in different ones > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >
