Hi, On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:12:33PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > > [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. Ah, then it was probably this limit. > Of course there's also a physical limit and you would need a 64bit CPU > in order to use more than 4GB. There's PAE36 or High memory[1]. You only need a kernel compiled with 4GB or 64GB support (the machine was Xeon with 6 GB). Bye, Tino. [1] Works like EMS from old DOS times. :-|
