Interesting topic and Ive given no thought to until now. Setting the memory allocation Photoshop posts how much is available,you then set the slider to use a percentage of what is available so it seems to me 100% is logical. Ive got 2 gb ram and PS tells me 1777mb is available so I presume the rest is used by Windows. Ive also tried opening a couple of other applications and the PS figure remains the same at 1777mb.
I will see how it shapes up . A striped raid array using a couple of fast disks as your primary scratch disk will also make a big difference. Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cavendish Studios" > The extra 20% does make a difference to us. > > As a portrait studios we regularly generate image sizes that approach 1Gb > before saving (loads of layers!!). > > For a long time, I had my slider set to 75% but was slowed down all the time > as as the file sizes exceeded the available RAM and data was being written > to the scratch disk. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
