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Adjust Photoshop 7 memory usage for large files
Authored by: Yaso on Aug 29, '03 11:06:05AM

I have monitor PSD 7 on OS X in our 12 G4 studio for quite a while now.

I have discovered that OS X, Mail.app, iTunes, Safari (or IE), Print Center and Suitcase are using about 300MB of RAM. I we use them extensively, I hits 500 MB max.

So I always reserve 300 MB to "basic" system app and then do a little math -->

300MB x 100 / Total physical RAM = % use by system "basic" app.

So if it equal to 30% I give 70% to PSD without slowing down my G4 and swap files like crazy.

- On a 2GB RAM G4 I can give 85% to PSD
- On a 1GB RAM G4 I can give 70% to PSD

Yaso



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