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I monitored my memory usage during a scanning job (60+ pages) and I observed the following:
On the machine where the scan was performed I have 1GB of RAM. Each new scanned page (in color at 300ppi) increased my RAM usage by ~30MB. This process continued until my memory usage reached ~850MB. After this point, each new scanned page added caused my SWAP usage to increase by ~30MB.
From the aforementioned explanation the following beneficial conclusion/
If worried that you will run out of free memory make your swap partition as large as necessary. When the used memory reaches 85%, the raw scanned images are kept on the swap partition.