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    <p>Hi Patrick,</p>
    <p>This uses some memory (~ canvas width pixels * canvas height
      pixels * 8 preview images * 32 bit RGBA), so let's assume 50 MB to
      100 MB.</p>
    <p>This consumption is independent from the number or type of
      layers.</p>
    <p>Matthias<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2017 08:02 AM, Patrick Dunford
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      <p>So to put it another way this is the reason why Qgis wants to
        use a huge amount of memory (40 GB) when I have a lot of raster
        images loaded in the background. <br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/11/17 18:56, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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            <div class="">On 16 Nov 2017, at 04:35, Patrick Dunford <<a
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          <div>Its application logic to prefetch / pre-render offscreen
            content in anticipation of user panning the map.</div>
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                                min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class="">
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                              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0,
                                0);" class="">Desktop GIS programming
                                services</div>
                              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0,
                                0);" class="">Geospatial web development</div>
                              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0,
                                0);" class="">GIS Training</div>
                              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0,
                                0);" class="">Consulting Services</div>
                              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class="">
                              </div>
                              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0,
                                0);" class=""><b class="">Skype</b>:
                                timlinux </div>
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                                font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;
                                font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
                                normal; font-weight: normal;
                                letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
                                text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;
                                text-transform: none; white-space:
                                normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
                                -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;
                                font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                                font-variant-position: normal;
                                font-variant-numeric: normal;
                                font-variant-alternates: normal;
                                font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin:
                                0px; line-height: normal;
                                -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0,
                                0);" class=""><b class="">IRC:</b><span
                                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>timlinux
                                on #qgis at <a
                                  href="http://freenode.net" class=""
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">freenode.net</a></div>
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