Photoshop CS2 memory, need help

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:33:22 +0800, "Mozart" wrote:

I am using a Compaq nc6230 notebook with 1Gig RAM and Windows XP Pro, virtual memory is managed by the system and using Photoshop CS2.
I found that all my physical memory are all being eaten after i open Photoshop until my pc got hang. I need to end "photoshop" task and all memory will be released again. You may see the attached picture to see the Task Manager.

Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks!!

The biggest glaring point is you say you have 1 gig ram, but task manager, and therefore the OS itself is only seeing 500 megs.
Total memory should show 1 gig no matter what’s running.. PS starting up shouldn’t have any effect on total memory.

One or more processes is eating up everything. 58% usage. I normally run at 1-10% usage. I also have 1 gig ram. But I don’t think the amount of ram has anything to do with usage. Is your page file system managed, or set to a permanent setting ? Reason I ask, is I’ve seen that particular setting change after I’d set it. If PS is running, is the work disk different from the boot disk ? Guess not, not much room for many drives in a laptop. Maybe 1 large drive with 2 different partitions could cure this allowing a separate drive for other uses.

I can’t duplicate your usage even with pscs2 running with a file in memory, and task manager running. It almost reaches 596 meg page file, but stops about 30 megs shy, and usage is still hovering around 6%.
I would say check the processes tab on task manager and see what’s eating everything up. Check all users and see if you haven’t picked up a hitchhiker.

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"Mozart" wrote in message

I am using a Compaq nc6230 notebook with 1Gig RAM and Windows XP Pro, virtual memory is managed by the system and using Photoshop CS2.
I found that all my physical memory are all being eaten after i open Photoshop until my pc got hang. I need to end "photoshop" task and all memory will be released again. You may see the attached picture to see the Task Manager.

Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks!!

I would check those 46 processes first.
I am using 1 GB ram and the CPU jumps to 30 when using some filters. Otherwise it’s at about 2-5% using CS
Intel P4 3.0 chip

I tried to adjust the memory, page file, and scratch disk, unfortunately, the memory leaking problem is still there. Is there any bug on Photoshop CS2? How should I fix the memory leaking issue? With many thanks!!

"Mozart" wrote in message

I am using a Compaq nc6230 notebook with 1Gig RAM and Windows XP Pro, virtual memory is managed by the system and using Photoshop CS2.
I found that all my physical memory are all being eaten after i open Photoshop until my pc got hang. I need to end "photoshop" task and all memory will be released again. You may see the attached picture to see the Task Manager.

Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks!!

How much RAM (real, not virtual) do you have to start with? What percentage of that memory have you made available to Photoshop?
Ian
"Mozart" wrote in message

I tried to adjust the memory, page file, and scratch disk, unfortunately, the memory leaking problem is still there. Is there any bug on Photoshop CS2? How should I fix the memory leaking issue? With many thanks!!

"Mozart" wrote in message

I am using a Compaq nc6230 notebook with 1Gig RAM and Windows XP Pro, virtual memory is managed by the system and using Photoshop CS2.
I found that all my physical memory are all being eaten after i open Photoshop until my pc got hang. I need to end "photoshop" task and all memory will be released again. You may see the attached picture to see the Task Manager.

Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks!!

"Mozart" wrote in message

I tried to adjust the memory, page file, and scratch disk, unfortunately, the memory leaking problem is still there. Is there any bug on Photoshop CS2? How should I fix the memory leaking issue? With many thanks!!

"Mozart" wrote in message

I am using a Compaq nc6230 notebook with 1Gig RAM and Windows XP Pro, virtual memory is managed by the system and using Photoshop CS2.
I found that all my physical memory are all being eaten after i open Photoshop until my pc got hang. I need to end "photoshop" task and all memory will be released again. You may see the attached picture to see the Task Manager.

Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks!!

Have you did a you checked the processes running in Windows Task Manager before running CS2? Then recheck after opening CS2? Sounds like something is running in the background or a bug has attached itself to a .exe or image file in your system.