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eschwartz · 01-03-2015, 11:28 PM

Please stop spreading FUD about calibre having problems with 4GB RAM, or even 2GB RAM.

calibre runs quite fine on my 2GB RAM system, this is while running a heavy desktop and having over 60 pages open in Firefox.

It has been brought up many times that calibre will have problems converting certain badly-formatted books that require a ton of extra work due to running out of memory, the solution to which is adding more memory, which generally means running 64-bit calibre which can utilize more memory (for the simple reason that most of the time, the person with trouble will already be running calibre on a computer that has at least 2GB memory, because, well, most people are...)
And I am sure there are books which require shockingly extravagant quantities of RAM that would blow all our minds... But I haven't personally heard of them. They would have to have really terrifying markup and size problems...

Seriously, stop being racist against 32-bit programs. That is the only explanation for these wild claims that calibre has mythical fundamental problems with memory.

For a lot of basic calibre use, it does not even TRY to use more than 200-400 megabytes!!!

01-03-2015, 11:28 PM	#54
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Please stop spreading FUD about calibre having problems with 4GB RAM, or even 2GB RAM. calibre runs quite fine on my 2GB RAM system, this is while running a heavy desktop and having over 60 pages open in Firefox. It has been brought up many times that calibre will have problems converting certain badly-formatted books that require a ton of extra work due to running out of memory, the solution to which is adding more memory, which generally means running 64-bit calibre which can utilize more memory (for the simple reason that most of the time, the person with trouble will already be running calibre on a computer that has at least 2GB memory, because, well, most people are...) And I am sure there are books which require shockingly extravagant quantities of RAM that would blow all our minds... But I haven't personally heard of them. They would have to have really terrifying markup and size problems... Seriously, stop being racist against 32-bit programs. That is the only explanation for these wild claims that calibre has mythical fundamental problems with memory. For a lot of basic calibre use, it does not even TRY to use more than 200-400 megabytes!!! Last edited by eschwartz; 01-04-2015 at 01:38 AM.