William (Dthdealer) wrote:Puppy 2.4? That is pretty old.
Yes, it sound like the GIMP refuses to load the plugin as it would cause you to have near-nil RAM left. Anything less than 16mb is too low really. The GIMP probably sees all of the image plugins as one big plugin.
Open up Gparted and add a swap partition to your USB stick. This will be used on low-RAM systems to make up for the lack of memory. Unfortunately this will also lower the life of your USB stick the longer it is used.
Upgrading your RAM or putting a swap partition on the computer's harddrive is a better long-term option. All Linux distributions will exploit the existence of a swap partition on your harddrive when they start, even on LiveCDs.
Upgrading RAM is out of the picture here, I'm using booting puppy in computer labs, so upgrading their hardware or making swap files on their computers would definitely result in me no longer being about to use puppy.
(My home computer, a frankenstein built of dumpster-dived and curbside hardware, recently flatlined when it's unattached cooling fan fell and broke most of it's fan blades. Resulting in a overheating processor that may have cooked the motherboard and nearby ram
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Just how much shorter would my usb flash drives lifespan be cut with that swap file?
(it's fairly new, probably only booted up puppy with it 20-30 times, and before that it only moved a gig or two of data six times or so.)
