On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:49:03PM +0530, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote: > What about making gimp do a benchmaking on the machine and then let it > automatically decide what method 2 use for that swapping/ tiling > stuff.. < Hey, now dont beat me. I confess i actually know none of the > stuff> Unfortunately, this is not practical because: a) you don't want to beat the machine for several minutes just to figure such things out b) you don't know the usual workload of the machine. It may be a single user machine (BTW tomorrow it'll get a memory upgrade) or a multi user machine where currently no one is working or maybe 10 people are computing like hell c) I/O intensive stuff may be running (user is burning CD, updatedb from locate is running, virus scanner runs or the machine is busy copying a DVD full of video or imagery) d) Linux kernel is upgraded tomorrow which has got a totally new VM (which is not very unlikely ;-> ) ... add you own Bye, Tino.
