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Adjust Photoshop 7 memory usage for large files
Authored by: miriedel on Aug 29, '03 12:58:09AM

hmmm have always set my memory usages to 100% and never had any problems. Have 1.25 GB ram, and use a raid for scratch. But even before the raid or on the boxes I use at work that have only 512 MB I haven't seen problems.

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Adjust Photoshop 7 memory usage for large files
Authored by: Dave Dietrick on Aug 29, '03 12:18:46PM

On a (dual Boot) 1.25 G4 I've got 2 gigs memory. I wanted Max RAM because of Photoshop's needs and had also read that that OS X was RAM hungry. When I first booted it I was shocked to learn that OS 10.2.6 (perhaps earlier versions as well) co-opts all installed memory above 1.5 gigs on top of what it uses for itself. (569mb in my case).

When I discovered Photoshop 7 Preferencs allowed me some control in memory assignment, I reasoned the OS already had plenty and set it for 100% and haven't had any problems yet. (I also learned that system 9.2.2 limits applications to 999mb and that is what I have assigned to Photoshop 6 which I either boot up or access through "Classic".)



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