Bug#516957: eog: EOG complains about insufficient memory before allocating the most memory possible.

[B. Bogart]

I'd like to be able to view an image if there is enough RAM to do so,
not just bail even when there is much more RAM available.

Does eog do some calculation to guess how much RAM the image will use
and bail when that exceeds that amount? Or does eog report the error
once some hard threshold is crossed?

Maybe there could just be a field in the prefs about how much RAM to
use, perhaps based on a % of what is available.

FYI I use eog for these large images because the interpolation makes
them viewable, as apposed to display, which does not rescale images.

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 10:00 -0800, B. Bogart a écrit :
>> When opening very large images eog gives a message about there being insufficient memory.
>> This happens once eog has only allocated about 30% of available memory (4GB on this machine).
>> Should not eog only complain that there is insufficent memory when its tried to allocate all it can?
>>
>> See attached screenshot, which shows the small RAM spike, and the RAM available (via free in the terminal).
> 
> I really don’t get it. You’d prefer if eog actually filled up your RAM,
> making your system unusable, *before* telling you that there’s not
> enough?
>