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Re: current VM performance
On 5 Jul 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:
>
> > I started with a 512x512 image (background of www.zip.com.au)
> > in GIMP. The first thing I did was increasing the image size
> > to 5120x5120, now I am 120M in swap on my 24M machine :-)
>
> I'm not sure if the gimp is a good vm tester, because it basically
> does its own VM with its tile based memory architecture.
With some changes to /usr/share/gimp/gimprc it is...
Let it grow to 100MB of memory and use cubic interpolation
instead of linear....
Besides, I don't have room anymore for the gimp's own
swap file :)
Rik.
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