Re: Memory on scaning.

From: Brian Schramm (bschramm@schramms.yi.org)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 10:23:29 PDT

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    Brian Schramm
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    On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Oliver Rauch wrote:

    > Brian Schramm wrote:
    > >
    > > I know that my machine is old and I am pushing it but I am just wondering if
    > > this is a problem because of a lack of memory.
    > >
    > > First the machine:
    > > Pentiom 133 with 80 meg of ram
    > > SCSI hard drives and IDE Hard Drives
    > > Debian Potato with Helix Gnome and KDE 2.1
    > > HP scanjet 5p scsi
    > >
    > > Now for the problem:
    > >
    > > If I try to scan a page in GUI mode using scanimage or xsane the scanner die
    > > mid scan. If I get rid of the gui I can use scanimage to do a scan. But I
    > > still cannot use xerox to do a copy.
    > >
    > > This appears to be a lack of memory but I just want to be sure. I am
    > > upgrading machines so I will have more memory but I want to make sure that the
    > > upgrade will fix my problems..
    >
    > Hi Brian,
    >
    > how large is the image that you try to scan?
    >
    > I don`t know what the hp-backend does.
    >
    > XSane does save the image directly to a file, the
    > image is not stored complete in memory.
    >
    > Do you connect via network (sane-net/saned) or direct
    > to the hp backend (sane-dll/sane-hp)?
    >
    > Bye
    > Oliver
    >
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