On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 22:54, David Neary wrote:
> Seems like a reasonable metric - but the default tile cache is 32M, 
> and most people have upwards of 128M RAM these days. Maybe if we
> were to use this metric we should consider upping the default
> tile cache to at least 64M? If you're loading images from a
> camera with 3 megapixels, 32M is big enough to have 1 image open
> with 2 layers and no undo levels. Which seems a little harsh :)

In libgphoto2, someone recently implemented reading the available memory
from /proc/meminfo (if available) and act according to that. The code is
at

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gphoto/libgphoto2/libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Look for gp_get_free_memory.

Lutz
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