I monitored my memory usage during a scanning job (60+ pages) and I
observed the following:

On the machine where the scan was performed I have 1GB of RAM. Each new
scanned page (in color at 300ppi) increased my RAM usage by ~30MB. This
process continued until my memory usage reached ~850MB. After this
point, each new scanned page added caused my SWAP usage to increase by
~30MB.

>From the aforementioned explanation the following beneficial 
>conclusion/workaround can be stated:
If worried that you will run out of free memory make your swap partition as 
large as necessary. When the used memory reaches 85%, the raw scanned images 
are kept on the swap partition.

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