> Maybe not impossible, just difficult and time consuming.
I do not know what planet you live on or in what universe you operate;
but here on planet Earth in this universe it is still impossible to
assign 120 thousand MB of physical RAM to Photoshop on a system that
only has 304MB of physical RAM.
filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk <> wrote:
> On 17/7/03 10:34, "LAURIE SOLOMON" <laurie@advancenet.net> wrote:
>
>> I believe that your so-called clue is a normal condition and one of
>> the reasons why one requires a large scratch disk of unfragmented
>> contiguous space usually 3-5 times the size of one's actual file
>> size.
> You do need to
>> turn virtual memory on so as to use the scratch disks. The 120MB of
>> physical RAM is really very little in the scheme of things with
>> contemporary machines having up to 3GB of physical RAM with as much
>> as 1GB asigned to Photoshop. However, unless you are working with 3
>> or 4 100MB plus files during a session, it should not cause the
>> Photoshop to freeze once you turn the virtual memory back on and
>> assign Photoshop a sccratch disk space one a hard drive with some
>> free contiguous unfragmented space of around 100MB or more ( better
>> yet assign the scratch disk itsown dedicated hard drive or, at least
>> a dedicated partition on a hard drive).
>>
>>> There is 304MB installed RAM of which 120,000MB are assigned to
>>> Photoshop.
>>
>> I assume that the 120,000MB iws an error and should read 120MB;
>> otherwise that is your problem, you are trying to do the impossible.
>> :-)
>
> Maybe not impossible, just difficult and time consuming. I recently
> tried to do some work on a PC with 256 RAM, and after scanning a 100
> Meg file, any attempt to work with it was very slow (as in many
> minutes) as photoshop was paging material out to the disk at a
> frightening rate. It took minutes to do the simplest thing. If
> there is only 120 Meg available to photoshop, it will page (and tell
> you if you don't have enough disk space - er, I think it is the OS
> that tells you... I normally use a G$ with dual processors and 512
> meg of RAM and it is very fast (I made 80% of the RAM available to
> Photoshop. I can get it to page too, but I have to work at it, and I
> prefer not. The point is that photoshop isn't necessarily "freezing,
> it is just busy with the writes to and reads from the disk.
>
> As Laurie implied, *give it more RAM*!
> Brad
>
>>
>> You also might check to see if the files which are to be saved are
>> flattened files since sometimes undesr some settings one cannot save
>> unflattened files; files that are 42 bit as oppposed to 24 bit also
>> cannot be saved to a TIFF format.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
>> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Maaki
>> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:24 AM
>> To: laurie@advancenet.net
>> Subject: [filmscanners] Photoshop freezing
>>
>>
>> I've hired a graphic designer to scan and colour correct some
>> transparencies using Photoshop, and I have set her up on a new Epson
>> 3200 scanner, and a PowerMac 9500 upgraded with a G3/400/1MB card,
>> and running Mac OS 9.1. (I had never used Photoshop myself, but I
>> seem to be the tech support person for all the Macs around here).
>> There is 304MB installed RAM of which 120,000MB are assigned to
>> Photoshop. Virtual Memory is off.
>>
>> Today Photoshop kept freezing. It seemed to work fine for the first
>> file opened and adjusted, but it always froze during the "Save As"
>> of the second file. The files are in the range of 20 to 40 MB in
>> size.
>>
>> Following is what happens. Open a Photoshop TIFF file, make some
>> adjustments and save it as under a new title and then close it. Then
>> when another TIFF file is opened, everything is the same up until the
>> "Save As" operation. When the dialog appears asking whether to save
>> as a "PC" or "Macintosh" file, the program freezes as soon as
>> "Macintosh' is clicked leaving a white space where the dialog had
>> been.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> CLUE
>> (A) I've checked with Memory Mapper, and find that Photoshop does
>> not release the extra memory a file used when that file is closed. It
>> hass to be quit and re-launched in order to release the memory.
>>
>> Maaki
>>
>>
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