Hallöchen! Richard Levitte writes:
> [...] > > Memory is the biggest thing here. > 4GB is the suggested minimum amount of RAM to run darktable (see the > manual: http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch07.html.php). If you > run other things (like, say, a browser with many tabs) on the system, > the more the better. Of course, you can counter that with sufficient > amount of swap, but you have to be prepared for that being used ;-) > For more than 4GB, I'd definitely start using a 64-bit kernel. How important is the speed of RAM? For example, on my office PC, mbw says: bronger@albert:~$ mbw 1024 Long uses 8 bytes. Allocating 2*134217728 elements = 2147483648 bytes of memory. Using 262144 bytes as blocks for memcpy block copy test. Getting down to business... Doing 10 runs per test. ... AVG Method: MEMCPY Elapsed: 0.60301 MiB: 1024.00000 Copy: 1698.152 MiB/s ... AVG Method: DUMB Elapsed: 0.38949 MiB: 1024.00000 Copy: 2629.095 MiB/s ... AVG Method: MCBLOCK Elapsed: 0.08500 MiB: 1024.00000 Copy: 12046.903 MiB/s My photo editing computer is much faster CPU-wise than my office PC. But while MEMCPY and DUMB are at approc 5000 MiB/s, MCBLOCK is only at 8000 MiB/s. Should I worry? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger Jabber ID: [email protected] or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
