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  From: Glen Cunningham <glenc@nor.com.au>
  To  : Cdrpconrad@aol.com
  Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:36:56 +1000

Re: The gimp

At 07:00  28/04/99 EDT, Conrad wrote:
>I have installed the gimp from the Debian 2.1 4 cd set on
>my Cx486DX4 -100 , 16MB machine and it doesn't run at all well.
>Photoshop 3.0.5 works very well
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How much total memory do you have in Linux?  16Mb physical memory is a bit
minimal, but more importantly, how much swap space do you have enabled?
Icechest about 80Mb total for X + gimp + whatever-else-you-have-running.
Remember, M$ winblo$e grabs large lumps of your hard disk for virtual
memory, that is why Photoshop works at all.
HTH
Glen

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