----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:03 AM Subject: Re: OT - A computer Question...
> I've never used PS. But from people are saying it must use one LARGE scratch > file. What is the purpose of this? Some sort of buffering? For memory control? > Making it faster? Or providing a workspace? Like the edit/paste space that > the Windows Clipboard provides? As soon as Photoshop runs out of RAM (not difficult if you have 256mb of ram on board) it starts to write to the scratch disk, creating a tmp file in the process. If you have a 40mb file open from a 6mp camera, and have half a dozen layers going, then that temp file might be around 200mb, all on it's own. That's why more ram is better than a faster processor for Photoshop users. My latest machine has 1.5 gig of ram with Photoshop swapping to a RAID drive, which is physically separate from the OS drive and it's paging file. I don't notice when or if I run out of ram, and I run some fairly processor intensive applications. Wanna see something cool, open your device manager and see what Neat Image does to the system resources...... > > Marnie aka Parker And I am beginning to be very glad I've never upgraded > from ME to XP. ;-) Her computer has a wonky installation from the sounds of it. XP is as close to a plug and play OS as you can get. William Robb
