On Monday 30 January 2006 19:54, Gregory Pittman wrote: > 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!. > > You will find that the final PDF size is not such a good indicator > of the space Scribus needs, especially if there are images. > With 256MB of RAM, your system is using (virtually) all of that all > the time; when you start up Scribus some things are taken out of > RAM to make room, then as you begin to use resources you have to > use swap. I don't think that /tmp is used by Scribus for storing > anything about your work. If you have /var on its own partition, > make sure it has plenty of space to work with. I have a laptop with > FC4 and a rather limited /var, so I learned why I needed to do a > 'yum clean packages' fairly frequently. > > Greg > _______________________________________________
FYI, Scribus puts temp files in $home/.scribus on linux Peter
