OT: photoshop on Windows

[Aaron Vegh]

Hi William,
Two possibilities occur:

1. If there is insufficient RAM in the system, Photoshop will rely  
more on "scratch space" -- the hard disk. This will slow things down.
2. If there's not a lot of hard disk space left, it'll have nowhere to  
put the scratch data.

So in short: more memory, more disk. That'll fix 'er.

Cheers,
Aaron.

On 27-Mar-09, at 2:05 PM, William Muriithi wrote:

> Afternoon,
>
> I am a little cautious raising a Windows related question on a Linux
> user group. That being said, I do believe there are a few among us who
> have experience using photoshop on windows and willing to extend a
> helpful hand, so bear with me  on this OT post.
>
> I have a friend running photoshop version 11.0.1.0 for a while now,
> but he has been dogged with a problem of it slowing the whole system
> down. After a reboot, it does perform is an acceptable manner for a
> while - 30 minutes, then slows down until the system is unusable. At
> that point, the only solution is to reboot the system. I googled a
> while back on it with no pointer for a permanent solution, so I set
> the system optimized for performance at the expense of appearance.
> This now allow the system to run for around 3 hours as opposed to 30
> minutes
>
> Now, would there be anyone among us who have noticed this kind of
> problem? Did you ever come across a solution for it? Personally, I
> feel its some kind of a memory leak, but googling for photoshop +
> memory leak do not pull any interesting search.
>
> Advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> William
>
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