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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> zgv runs out of memory at 16M or 32M but works 
> at 48MB on a 1.5MB jpg.

xli (the default image renderer in BL3) happily
displays a 1.6mb jpg with 16mb RAM and no swap.

> links2 at 1024 (svgalib) needed the 64MB.

I just tested this myself on an old laptop with
16mb RAM.  With swap turned off, links2 failed 
to display a 1.6mb jpg; however, after turning 
on swap, it happily displayed the jpg (which, 
I suppose, is a good example of the benefit of 
swap).  BTW, there wasn't a lot of swap activity:  
the HD light flashed a couple of times (each 
flash was less than a second). 
 
Cheers,
Steven