Agreed, but not everyone can get more memory into older machines. I can only get 768mb into my P3 (have 512 at present), and now that I'm starting to work with larger files, the extra scratch space is very welcome. I'll probably add a little more memory when I can get around to it.
John Francis wrote: > > If you have to swap to disk, then putting the Photoshop scratch space > on a different physical drive takes some of the pain away. But it's > far better to have enough memory in the first place, and never going > to disk at all. Even the fastest disk transfer speed is still much > slower than main memory speeds. Try to get more memory first; a second > drive is a palliative, not a solution. >
