[Scribus] Minimum practical memory size

[Craig Bradney]

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

And the thing about libart or cairo?

Craig
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