On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 22:54, David Neary wrote: > Seems like a reasonable metric - but the default tile cache is 32M, > and most people have upwards of 128M RAM these days. Maybe if we > were to use this metric we should consider upping the default > tile cache to at least 64M? If you're loading images from a > camera with 3 megapixels, 32M is big enough to have 1 image open > with 2 layers and no undo levels. Which seems a little harsh :) In libgphoto2, someone recently implemented reading the available memory from /proc/meminfo (if available) and act according to that. The code is at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gphoto/libgphoto2/libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Look for gp_get_free_memory. Lutz -- +----------------------------------------------+ | Lutz Müller +49 (7156) 34837 | | | | Hans-Sachs-Strasse 5 | | 71254 Ditzingen http://www.topfrose.de | | Germany lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | +----------------------------------------------+