If you use 2 partitions on the same drive, you could well get pausing as it sorts out a) fragmentation and b) swapping between partitions on the same drive.
Evidence seems to suggest that 1 separate drive per Photoshop scratch disk is preferable.
Other than that it may be that CS prefers less RAM allocated; try fiddling with percentages around 85% of installed RAM.
Hope this is of use
Richard Earney
-- http://www.method-photo.co.uk
On 8 Mar 2004, at 13:47, Ivan Coleman wrote:
Think it makes sense to do this online Richard, cheers.
I'm running G4 1.25 single, 1.5gb RAM, 1gb set to CS, 2 seperate scratch discs (partitions on seperate drives from App) each set to 2gb, freespace on main drive is 100gb+
I'm not running File Browser.
The files are not bigger than 300mb (rarely more than 150mb) & not using loads of layers, just simple colour corrections to print.
The biggest problem I get is CS sometimes pauses when saving TIFF files. It can last for 3-5 mins, locks up the computer from any input and seems, to all intent, to have crashed. THEN, when it feels like it, it starts up again and starts doing all the input commands you tried when it was having it's nap.
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