On 11/25/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Mark Cassino wrote: > > >> We'll be processing as many as 500 6-10mp files into 3000 or more > >> 8x10 > >> package prints. > >> Gigabytes at a time is a pretty close assessment. > >> Right now, it takes us about an hour of computer time to do it. > >> I'd like > >> to speed things up a bit. > > > > If you are doing similar work now you can run a batch with the task > > manager open to the performance tab, and see what the memory usage is. > > When Photoshop (I assume you are using Photoshop) has to start > > swapping > > to the drive, performance will tumble. > > > > As Godfrey noted, it sounds that the bottle neck would be in the I/ > > O. If > > you are loading and saving a bunch of relatively small files (6-10 mp > > seems small to me) then you might benefit most from investing in fast > > drives and enough memory to cache the image while it is worked on. > > My understanding is that Photoshop on Windows XP cannot take > advantage of more than 2G RAM at the present time. I am not sure > about it on Mac OS X. My strategy, though, assuming a similar memory > need, was to fit my G5 with 3G RAM as a minimum, then fit both a very > fast 500G main drive and a second fast 250G scratch drive to point > Photoshop's cache at. That seems to give it a good shot... > > I've clocked it, while watching the system monitor, while doing a > heavy batch RAW conversion processing and scripted operations job. It > never consumes all of the available RAM, even with me running several > other processes simultaneously (like web browser, terminal, email) > and paging is minimal. Other processes with lots of IO can impact the > photoshop batch performance as can rendering occasionally but that's > to be expected ... degradation unless I'm doing something truly silly > is minor percentage points.
You may find this interesting: <http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/320005.html> Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
