Re: [Gimp-user] Tweaking performance

[peter kostov <gimp light-bg com>]

On 11/15/2011 06:05 PM, Rob Antonishen wrote:
>     I think USB2 will be horribly slow, so no point of adding such
>     drive. And, I hope that somebody will correct me if I am wrong, but
>     I don't think that GIMP uses /tmp that much if at all. What you
>     really need is more RAM and a fast drive for the swap partition.
>
>
> Throwing out another thought -  can gimp temp and gimp swap be set up to
> use a ram based filesystem?
>
> -Rob A>

Yes, through using /dev/shm, but the OP doesn't have enough RAM to do this.