I was thinking that also, but thought maybe there was a simpler answer.
Man I should have bought more ram when it was so cheap!!
Seth
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 21:01, Russell Hires wrote:
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> Advice: Hmmm...I noticed that it was taking forever to open the pic, so I
> just quit Konqueror. A pic that big shouldn't kill your machine, though.
> Sounds like a kernel problem? Since you're dealing with a beta, I'd let
> RedHat know...
>
> Russell
>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 16:25 pm, you wrote:
> > be careful opening that large earth image. I tried to open it in the
> > gimp and next thing my PC was rebooting!
> > I have 256MB of ram and a gig of sswap space.
> > Now I know the image was larger than my ram but I thought it might crash
> > the gimp, maybe even kill X but to just suddenly reboot is a bad thing.
> >
> > I using RH7.3 beta2 any advise? (besides dont open such big images?)
> >
> > Seth
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 13:42, Seth Hollen wrote:
> > > ftp://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/EARTHVIZ/
> > >
> > > the two pics are
> > > land_shallow_topo_east.tif
> > > land_shallow_topo_west.tif
> > >
> > > I thought they were neat.
> > > --
> > > Take care,
> > >
> > > Seth
> > > seth@hollen.org
> > > 727-919-1598
>
> - --
> Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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-- Take care,Seth seth@hollen.org 727-919-1598
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