Hi, Tino Schwarze <gimp-developer.lists@xxxxxxx> writes: > [1] Working ain't gonna be fun - I once had an A1 poster at 300 dpi on > an 6 GB machine and GIMP's swap grow as large as another 6 GB since GIMP > didn't seem to be able to use more than 2 or 3 GB of memory altogether. > (Is there a known limitation regarding maximum usable memory?) The operating system imposes a limit on the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated by a process. IIRC the limit is 3GB on Linux. Of course there's also a physical limit and you would need a 64bit CPU in order to use more than 4GB. Sven
