Huge Image File

Is it possible for me to open a 935MB image file on my Pentium II
266MHz computer with 128MB RAM? I have plenty of harddrive space, so
virtual memory could be used, right?

By the way, the file is a thermal image map of a river.

Aaron

Probably not but why not try it? All you can do is to crash the computer

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"Aaron" <> wrote in message
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> Is it possible for me to open a 935MB image file on my Pentium II
> 266MHz computer with 128MB RAM? I have plenty of harddrive space, so
> virtual memory could be used, right?
>
> By the way, the file is a thermal image map of a river.
>
> Aaron

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Aaron wrote:

> Is it possible for me to open a 935MB image file on my Pentium II
> 266MHz computer with 128MB RAM? I have plenty of harddrive space, so
> virtual memory could be used, right?
>
> By the way, the file is a thermal image map of a river.
>
> Aaron

(Some of the software engineers where I work occasionally try to do things
like that: open a 3 or 4 gig Microsoft SQL log file over the network - with
Notepad. )

Under Windows, if the application provides good memory management in
conjunction with the operating system, it *might* open.

I would expect to see a lot of disk activity with respect to the page file.

If you have access to a modern-ish Linux-based machine (and the image is in
a format that can be read by software available for Linux), I honestly
believe your chance of success will be much higher.

I'm not claiming it will open quickly, or without a lot of swap file
activity, but I think it would open more easily.


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Ron n1zhi

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