Digital BW, The Print

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

>Huh? I've not seen times anywhere near that long on my comparatively wimpy
>machines. On my 1.7GHz P-III IBM A31p laptop with 1GB RAM, PS7 starts in
>about 15 seconds, or about 3 seconds if it's already sitting in the disk
>cache. PS CS takes about 25 seconds fresh, 11 seconds out of the cache. Do
>you have a bazillion plugins or something? It sounds like there might be
>something hanging the startup process, something that you could fix if you
>poked around a bit.
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It's likely the vast number of plugins...  AND the VAST number of FONTS 
(maybe 1600?)..  Illustrator always has taken forever to load as well 
(as a result of the fonts)..

PS 7 has a smaller plugin cache, but not by much... 1384 vs 1420 kb.. 
I'm thinking it may be that most of my plugins are still in the PS7 
location and looked for by PS CS in the secondary plugin directory.. PS 
CS has 18  plugin categories (i.e. first order menu choices under 
"Filters") in its own directories, with 61 *.8b? format plugins.. While 
PhotoShop 7 has some 101 categories in its directories, with 671 *.8b? 
format plugins alone.. Can you say "lotsa plugins?"  I've been an 
inveterate player with plugins for years..  Some people collect baseball 
cards, I collect plugins, then rarely use them..

Update: By turning off  the "additional Plugins Location,"  in the PS CS 
preferences, my load time for PS CS dropped to 38 seconds...  Given that 
older versions of PS could end up listing two copies of the same plugins 
when the additional plugins location contained earlier or later versions 
of the same plugin/filter, but PS CS apparently doesn't do that, the 
extra time seems to be involved mostly with PS CS deciding which plugin 
to list (i.e. comparing plugins in the secondary location to those in 
the primary location) and in the extra overhead involved just in loading 
the plugins from the secondary location.
 

>Your other times are impressive.
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Thanks.. I very rarely have context from machine to machine, other than 
in my own little universe of machines here.. It's an old homebuilt 
machine Paul (5 years old!). Bought a good motherboard, a P6DGE 
SuperMicro, in 1998 and kept upgrading it - gotta compliment SuperMicro 
for actually doing upgrades to the resistors to allow eb PIII usage and 
even doing a repair on one of these boards (try finding that kind of 
service from other mainboard manufacturers). Today it even runs dual 
video from an NVidia GeForce4 PCI card and an ATI AGP 8500DV card.   
It's reached its limit with dual PIIIeb 1gHz chips and 2 gb RAM..  I'm 
looking at a dual Opteron mainboard (a TYAN Tiger K8W? 
<http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerk8w.html> so I don't have to 
jump to PCI X I/O boards too - although onboard SCSI would be nice so I 
can dump the Adaptec PCI card) as the next upgrade.. Prolly sometime 
this spring or this summer.  That way, I'll be ready for 64 bit...

 
Keith Krebs

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