On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:59:46 +0100, David Necas (Yeti) <yeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:56:33PM +0100, Raphaël Quinet wrote: > > - A good rule of thumb for setting the tile cache size seems to be: > > 90% of the memory available when the GIMP is running for the first > > time, or total amount of memory - 64 MB, whichever is the largest. > > So the formula would be something like: > > min (32 MB, max (free * 0.9, total - 64 MB)) > > Didn't you mean something more like > > max (32 MB, free * 0.9, total - 64 MB) ? > > The way you wrote it no one would get more than 32MB, which > probably wasn't the point. Yes, of course. I don't know what I had been thinking when I typed that. No one should get _less_ than 32 MB as the proposed value. Your formula is what I should have typed if I had thought a bit more before sending my message. Thanks for correcting this, -Raphaël
