Re: fork() failing on athlon system

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Since those are big images, and JPEGs are compressed, I presume that when Gimp decompresses all of them into it's address space (RAM+swap), that it runs out of resources. Can you add another swap partition? I had to bump up from 256MB swap to 650MB swap when opening up some really big JPEGs, ev

fork() failing on athlon system

2002-05-31 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Hi, Just a couple of (perhaps related) questions. The machine in question is a 800MHz Athlon box with 256MB RAM. It's running Linux 2.4.18-ac3 at present and Debian woody (I just finished upgrading everything to woody). Question 1: I heard about the Athlon/AGP cache-coherency bug and the machin