On Saturday, May 11, 2002 8:39 AM, Rob "Op's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Photoshop >200M scan file size. >I now have a P3 800 / 780M ram + scratch disk. That should be OK, if you have allocated enough RAM for PS. Try 75%. >This is using sometimes 3G PShop memory The History (undo) list eats a lot of scratch space. It is only used when you go back in the history. Before a batch operation set the number of History levels to 1. >and is taking heaps of time to process. With too little RAM allocated to PS, the image will be constantly re-read from the scratch disk, methinks. >What is the consensus to upgrade to a working configuration? Well, my PhotoShop knowledge is a little rusty, but I have experienced how amazingly well it has handled relatively large image files (compared to e.g. PaintShop and PhotoPaint). But it takes a good amount of time to *open* (to disk cache) a large file, if disk access is a bottleneck - i.e. if the source file is on the same physical disk as the scratch/cache file, or if the disk is slow, or if the disk buffer is small. If your harddisk is of the non-fast variety then add a new, silent, big, fast disk (for the scratch file), e.g. a WD1200JB (the one with an 8MB buffer). Take a look at your system monitor to see if PS is actually using the RAM you have installed - your PS allocation may be way too small (experiment, keep e.g. 100 MB RAM free for other tasks, monitor usage once in a while, especially during scanning). BUT (important) start by optimizing Windows for your needs! Tips below. It's scary how much resource-wasting crap any Microsoft OS or application installs by default, without obvious ways to turn it off. If MS Office is installed, remove/disable FastFind/Indexing/Search or whatever they call it currently. In Explorer->Tools->FolderOptions, select "Classic" style, and un-check these: - "Remember each folder's view settings" - "Hide file extensions for known file types" - "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items". In Desktop properties: - under Background, select "(None)" for Pattern and Wallpaper. - under Appearance, select "Windows Standard" for the Desktop item - under Effects, un-check "Animate windows, menus and lists" In the ControlPanel "TweakUI" (this for v1.33, see below) on the "General" tab, un-check all "animation" & "hot tracking" items, on the "IE" tab, un-check these: - "Allow Active Desktop to be turned on/off" - "Allow changes to Active Desktop" on the "Boot" tab, un-check "Display splash screen while booting" For XP you can get some powertoys (including TweakUI) here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp I have no experience with these XP-versions of the powertoys. Otherwise get TweakUI 1.33 here: http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NT TweakUI.asp Unpack it (it's basically just a zip-file), then right-click on the inf file and click install. Close the popped-up help window. TweakUI is then found as a Control Panel. Oh by the way, don't install any hungry services (e.g. MS SQL Server) on your workstation. /Peder Skyt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
