Re: [Digital BW] RE: PhotoShop 7, PhotoShop CS, and Memory - and performance and B&W????
2003-12-02 by John Stacy
Huh?????? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Editor P.O.V. Image Service" <editor@...> I'm looking at a new moboard with support for either dual Opterons or
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> dual Xeon P4s.. One factor to consider is how much memory I can address > in the OS and with PShop in particular.. (It's my workhouse application). > > However.. I've been playing with some things and found a utility called > RAMDiskXP. Up until today, the RAM drive support for XP I had seen... > Well it was not the greatest.. > > But, by using this utility and creating a 513 mB ram disk, and setting > that as the first scratch drive I am seeing a significant performance > increase in a bunch of operations (BTW: Adobe used to recommend RAM > scratch disks back in its early incarnations)... That's on layered > imagery up to 13x19... If I was into benchmarking this kinda stuff I'd > run the scratch disk at various sizes and compare how PhotoShop runs > using the remaining memory in each configuration.. > > My swap file sizes don't generally get beyond half a gB, so I've set up > two new boot options.. One boots into XP Pro with 1535mB set for Win XP, > the second does the same but with only 1024 mB set for Windows.. I'm > generally booting into the first version, but if I am working on a > really large 16bit image with lots of layers, and intend to do major > filtering, etc., I can go to the latter option. Alternatively, if I > don't expect to be using PhotoShop at all, I can still boot into XP and > give it access to all the memory, or even boot into Win 98 (the command > line version is still good for working on system issues - I don't like > the XP command line interface, it's extremely limiting)