On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:16:49 +0000, Alastair M. Robinson wrote: > > The most important thing to do is balance your tile cache setting, as > you've already found. You want it large enough that GIMP doesn't have > to use its own virtual memory, but not so large that the OS has to use > virtual memory to accommodate it. On a 2GB machine, I'd set to about > 1.5GB, assuming GIMP has pretty much free reign over the machine. > If the OS has better virtual memory than what available to gimp, then you would want to use that one. In Linux, I think in most cases, you would want to use the (often in multiple disks) swap partitions/files available to the OS. If you want to keep the system friendly to other apps as well, you might consider a smaller than the available memory tile cache setting... PS. SOT: many people have more than one disk on their system. In that case they should consider these example fstab entries: /dev/hdf1 swap swap defaults,pri=0 0 0 /dev/hdg5 swap swap defaults,pri=0 0 0 /stuff/swap swap swap defaults,loop,pri=0 0 0 (you might spell it as: "raid0 swap with three disks")
