Using a Brother MFC7360N on Fedora 20, sane-backends-1.0.24-7.fc20.x86_64, I'm trying do a high resolution color scan. I've got plenty of ram:
KiB Mem: 3956764 total, 2669148 used, 1287616 free, 40 buffers KiB Swap: 6143996 total, 1003996 used, 5140000 free, 1144384 cached and disk space. top doesn't show any problem. The specs for the 7360N are up to 600x2400 optical. scanimage -A scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88 scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567 All options specific to device `brother4:net1;dev0': Mode: --mode Black & White|Gray[Error Diffusion]|True Gray|24bit Color|24bit Color[Fast] [24bit Color[Fast]] Select the scan mode --resolution 100|150|200|300|400|600|1200|2400|4800|9600dpi [200] Sets the resolution of the scanned image. --source FlatBed|Automatic Document Feeder(left aligned)|Automatic Document Feeder(centrally aligned) [Automatic Document Feeder(left aligned)] BTW, what does --resolution set: width (600) or height (2400) ? At 1200 resolution, it works: scanimage -vvv --format pnm -x 215.9 -y 279.4 --mode '24bit Color' -d 'brother4:net1;dev0' --resolution 1200 --source FlatBed -p scanimage: value for --x is: 215.9 scanimage: value for --y is: 279.4 scanimage: value for --resolution is: 1200 scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88 scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 279.4 to 279.374 scanimage: scanning image of size 9920x13195 pixels at 24 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring RGB frame scanimage: min/max graylevel value = 0/255 scanimage: read 392683200 bytes in total Closing device generating a 400mb pnm file. At 2400 (which should generate a 1.6G file, correct?) it doesn't: scanimage -vvv --format pnm -x 215.9 -y 279.4 --mode '24bit Color' -d 'brother4:net1;dev0' --resolution 2400 --source FlatBed -p scanimage: value for --x is: 215.9 scanimage: value for --y is: 279.4 scanimage: value for --resolution is: 2400 scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88 scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 279.4 to 279.374 scanimage: scanning image of size 19840x26390 pixels at 24 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring RGB frame scanimage: min/max graylevel value = 255/0 scanimage: sane_read: Out of memory Closing device Calling sane_exit The max