I suspect your scratch disc temp files are taking the additional burden which is why its worth getting a fast separate drive just for that purpose
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: "Jonathan Coleman" < Subject: [PRODIG] PS CS - Less Memory means more!!! > Much debate rages in PS circles over the optimum Memory Allocation > (Edit/Preferences/Memory & Image Cache). > > Fo a long time I had the slider set to 100% in CS; then 85%; and, now, a > mere 70%. This last number because I saw it recommended on the Prodig List . > > This means that I have only 957Mb of my 1.5Gb RAM available to CS > (usingf Windows XP Home). Not very encouraging when images typically > would use 600Mb when they are first opened . > > However, that was when the RAM available was 1.13Gb (85%) > When the memory allocation was dropped to 70% (957Mb), exactly the same > image used only 225Mb of available RAM and the useage rose more slowly > as layers etc are added!!! > > Result - proportionately more RAM seems to be available to manipulate > the image when less has been allocated to CS in the first place! > > Can anyone tell me why?!!! =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
