tino.schwarze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (2003-09-24 at 1132.48 +0200): > I'd just like to say: Well done. I managed to create a A1 poster at 600 > dpi - a whopping 1.1 Gig of picture data (about 20000x14000 pixels). Was there a real difference between 600 DPI and 300 DPI? I have a mag here that is done in 300-400 DPI, with good paper... and it looks nice, and it is something you look nearer than a wall poster. > BTW: Is it possible that there is a 3 Gig limit on per-process memory? > The machine has 6 GB, no ulimits and I got a "could not allocate x > bytes" message when I gave 3 Gig tile cache to GIMP (it took about 500 > Meg for other stuff, so I settled with 2.5 GB tile cache and still got a > 3 Gig swap file plus 3 Gig memory usage). What kind of processor and OS was used? GSR
