check out this memory usage.   kubuntu 6.06

tty2 [greg@~] free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           249         32        216          0          0         14
-/+ buffers/cache:         17        231
Swap:          255          0        255
tty2 [greg@~]



and yes that's with xorg running.

 5006 tty5     Ss+    0:03 X :0
 5014 tty24    S+     0:00 su - greg -- blackbox -display :0
 5016 tty24    S+     0:01 blackbox -display :0
 total processes 33


but i still get this error when trying to view a 708K .tiff file.

GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate 257767578 bytes
aborting...