Photoshop memory management

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Alex314
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Postby Alex314 » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:02 pm

Reading Mike's post on this subject and the first article (in photoshopnews.com) mentioned in the post, I see that I can "... watch the performance of Photoshop in the Performance Monitor (Windows) ...".

I don't see any performance monitor in PS. Where is it?. Or is the Task Manager meant here? If so, what do I watch exactly?

Alex

-default
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Postby -default » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:24 am

Hi Alex,

Yes, it's the Task Manager.  When things bog down, I generally click on the Processes tab, and then on either CPU or Mem Usage columns to see who is using more than their share. 

You can select what you want to look at by using the View>Select Columns... menu command. My columns are set to PID, User Name, CPU. Mem Usave, Base Pri, GDI Objects, IO Reads, and IO Writes.

Alex314
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Postby Alex314 » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:38 am

Hello Mike,

that explains it! I use the Task Manager a lot lately trying to find the cause of high cpu usage, but I never used it to monitor the efficiency of PS.

Alex


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