Digital BW, The Print

Ok, once again, here I go providing negative news on a beloved graphics
icon, I'm sure it will endear me in the hearts of many (NOT)..  But,
I'll report it anyway.

There are reports of  apparently documentable memory problems on BOTH
the Windows and Mac OS X sides (I've seen them on my Windoze machine
too).. Sounds like CS has an inborn memory management problems.

See the following threads at the Adobe's own Forums (of course, "fora"
was the original proper pluralization of "forum") :

"PS CS and serious memory problems under OS X (Panther)"
http://tinyurl.com/ywxjo

"CS Memory Leak"
http://tinyurl.com/2floe

"PS CS eventual slow down"
http://tinyurl.com/2ja3a

"CS Memory Hog Test (vs. ver 7)"
http://tinyurl.com/2sxc2

"CS Problems"
http://tinyurl.com/27gb8

And one at DP Review:
http://tinyurl.com/2m8tf


Of course, in each thread over at Adobeland it seems that people
responding initially deny it's an issue, but then after users exhaust
all the suggestions, they admit that Adobe IS researching a problem
along these lines.

That's what happens when you use proprietary memory management (in
effect a mini self-contained OS) and don't test it on enough hardware
and/or real OSes before you release the full version upgrade..  That's
also why other applications generally leave memory management to the
OSes. Fighting with modern OSes to control the memory is bound to result
in problems sometimes. Especially since BETA testing today goes out to
smaller subsets of the user community (as a % of installed users than it
did in the past).

Welcome to the land of  M$ style BETA Testing, where Version 1.0 is the
final Release Candidate / BETA, and initial adopters take the hit.



Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo
Publications), at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
and  the Multiverse's largest Canon printer User  Community at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Canon-printers
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together
guys"