Ibrowse & jpegtmp?huh

[Damion]

Yes, add an assign to your sys:s/user-startup,

assign jpegtmp: ram:t

Or where ever

[Damion]

Like I said, assign it where ever. I put it
in RAM and have no problems, but other
people assign it to a physical disk. Some
programs (photogenics or PPaint if I recall)
assign JPEGTMP to RAM:T by default during
install, so it's definately an acceptable
practice. Perhaps if you have only a small
amount of fastram then a disk is better.

[Damion]

:-)

[Damion]

>then you might start having a problem if all
>your memory has been used for swap files

Except that this never happens. The memory is
only occupied  temporarily. After progressively
loading about 50 different jpegs with IBrowse,
the most I lost at one time was about 1.5MB
(and I suspect this was mostly memory needed
for display purposes). It's just a small area
of memory that is used (and reused) for decoding.

(edit) The memory - slider (for jpegtemp in
Ibrowse) only adjusts the amount of memory that
can be used within "jpegtemp" to decode. So
you could set it to a small amount if you only
had a small amount of fastram (slightly slower
decoding speeds) or higher/off with more
fastram (slightly faster decoding speeds).
The memory is returned after use, and in my
experience rarely is <2mb used at once.