[aklug] video system questions

I need some help, or directions to good info, on my video subsystem

These days pdf files have pretty much replaced paper, for me. This means I get
construction drawings, 34x22 mostly, in sets or induvidually. This is causing me
to notice more time waiting for images to render. The pdf files are mostly 1-4MB
in size.

I have fair amount of resources on my sysmtem, quad core & 8Gb of memory, I don't
use swap but the memory cache is used a lot. This brings me to figuring out if my
video system could be better.

I use a Nvidia Quadro dual head 256mb of memory, low by todays standards.

The following error message is from 'mupdf' failed attempt to render a page. I
also have available 'epdfview, evince, & kpdf'. None of the latter have the error
mesage and render at different speeds, kpdf seems faster, evince has some feaures
I like.

Where to look for speed improvements ? Thanks.

pabi@myetch:~$ warning: pixmap memory exceeds soft limit 248M + 233M > 256M
+ pdf/pdf_image.c:168: pdf_load_image_imp(): out of memory
| pdf/pdf_image.c:349: pdf_load_image(): cannot load image (3 0 R)
| pdf/pdf_interpret.c:1432: pdf_run_Do(): cannot load image (3 0 R)
\ pdf/pdf_interpret.c:2029: pdf_run_keyword(): cannot draw xobject/image

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Peace,
Greg
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