[svlug] Photo sorting software

[Bill Kendrick]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:05:29PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> So, you are running an application (F-Spot) on a host system (presumably)
> running linux. And your data (the photos) exceeds the physical ram
> available on the host platform -- so the kernel starts paging.

I think the point is:  when you say 'import all 2000 images' (something
I would assume an app like F-Spot is designed specifically for), that it
would NOT load all of them into RAM at once. ;^)

amaroK, for example, seems to deal just fine with my 11GB of ripped CD audio.

-- 
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
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