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Photoshop and RAM

I was reading Jim Edelen's post on running Sharepoint on a notebook and freeing up memory and decided to see where my 512MB of memory was being spent at the moment.  I went through and shut down non-essential services like SQL Server and SQL Server Agent (these freed up @20MB, as was Jim's observation), then I exited Adobe Photoshop 6.0.  I do a lot of utility graphic work through my day and so I keep Photoshop open but minimized for quick use.  I couldn't believe what I saw when over 200MB of memory was freed by closing Photoshop!  Hey, I'm a big Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator fan, but this was one of those times I am reminded that they aren't the most efficiently designed Windows apps out there.  I will certainly make a practice of exiting Photoshop when I'm not using it in the future.

Published Jul 31 2003, 12:40 AM by daveburke
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HumanCompiler said:

AFAIK, it's usually all the history storage and what not getting left around, clipboard items, etc.

Good tip! :)
July 31, 2003 1:20 AM
 

Darrell said:

Actually, Photoshop grabs a certain percentage of available RAM when opened to make it work faster. To decrease the amount of RAM used by Photoshop (v6), go to Edit/Preferences/Memory & Image cache, and change the percentage of Used by Photoshop to a more manageable number.
July 31, 2003 1:14 PM
 

sirshannon said:

also make sure to install the patch for PS6. It solved the memory leak I was having here.
July 31, 2003 9:03 PM
 

Emily said:

I have ps6 and it doesnt work anymore. It says "Photoshop could not be initialized beacause it does not have enough memory (RAM)" Can someone help me? Anyways, photoshop is an amzing program
October 1, 2003 5:27 PM
 

jblue said:

I can apply any design on my ps6. it says it can't complete the command because there's not enough memory (RAM)...
May 26, 2004 2:22 AM
 

jblue said:

what patch? can i download it?
May 26, 2004 2:23 AM
 

Lucho said:

Locate the Adobe photoshop preferences file (C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Prefs.xxx on Windows systems), and move it to a different location.

Try loading photoshop. If it starts, it will be with default preferences, but it will run.
June 21, 2004 9:27 AM
 

XtAc said:

interestingly ... I'm running Photoshop 7.0 on an AMD 2400+ with 1.5GB RAM and 500GB hard drive space ... when i'm editing a file ... sometimes I get a Windows message "Out of Virtual memory, increasing size of page file" ... anyone have any insight on that?? thanx.
July 5, 2004 1:49 AM
 

James Burke (i don't think there's relationship) said:

man, you guys are lucky, cause i tried loading Adobe Photoshop 7.0, and nothing happened, then i tried to open it through Image Ready, and it said it's not responding. does anyone know how to fix it?
July 10, 2004 1:15 AM

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