On Monday 30 January 2006 19:24, Calum Polwart wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 23:24 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote: > > On Sunday 29 January 2006 23:17, John R. Culleton wrote: > > > I am working in Scribus on a Linux Slack 10.2 system with 256MB > > > of memory. I seem to be having memory problems. I have plenty of > > > swap space. What is the practical minimum memory for Scribus > > > 1.3.2? > > > > How was your Scribus built? > > > > Your build ID in Help About will show something like: > > C-C-T-F-A or perhaps that A will be a C. Is your Scribus really 1.3.2 or > > have you built from CVS? The reason I say this is that the cairo build of > > 1.3.2 or before had a memory leak. Built against libart, or 1.3.3cvs, > > there is no issue. > > > > Other than that, 256-512 would be minimums depending on the rest of the > > system installed and running. > > I'm running Fedora Core 3 with Scribus 1.3.2cvs, with a 2200MHz AMD XP > Processor and 256Mb Ram and would say that it can also grind to a halt > quite frequently (Final PDF size is about 50Mb to give idea of size). > It works - its just slow.. Sometimes painfully slow. My swap space is > fairly small (1-2Gb) - "she" keeps filling the temp space with music and > video downloads!. > > I have 1Gb of RAM on the way so that will increase my RAM 5 times, and I > will feedback the effect of that and Increasing my swap space after the > weekend... > > Calum
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