memory usage...

[MikeTheVike]

I've been looking at the Activity Monitor at the memory usage for my mac. A fresh opening of Photoshop CS with a 100mb file takes up almost a gig of ram! is this normal?

It also seems like Firefox takes up less memory than Safari, but I'm going to test that more today.

[Silence04]

depending on the file, it sounds about normal to me...

[PrintDriver]

Yep. And if you have layers it's really not surprising at all.

[xplod_ldg]

I'm opening a 200 Mb file with that much memory usage on my PC.

[urstwile]

Take into account Photoshop's memory. Depending on how many history levels of undo (history) you've got going on, clipboard, etc., this is all going into your available RAM and when that runs out, into virtual memory as well. Don't forget your scratch disk stuff as well. Photoshop is not shy about eating up all your RAM if it needs it. Hopefully you've got lots of available hard drive space for scratch space.

[acegraphics]

I've been looking at the Activity Monitor at the memory usage for my mac. A fresh opening of Photoshop CS with a 100mb file takes up almost a gig of ram! is this normal?

It also seems like Firefox takes up less memory than Safari, but I'm going to test that more today.

Are you using a new intel mac? If so, Rosetta is a memory pig.

For those that dont know "Rosetta" is Apples emulation layer that translates PPC code to intel readable code.

Ace

[MikeTheVike]

Are you using a new intel mac? If so, Rosetta is a memory pig.

For those that dont know "Rosetta" is Apples emulation layer that translates PPC code to intel readable code.

Ace

yea, One thing I've done downloaded a widget that closes all my widgets with a button press, so they aren't loaded into memory all the time. Pretty handy

[mojoprime]

speaking on widgets, have you opened activity monitor and tracked all the widgets you've installed? on some of them, especially the ones like weather or sport stats, just because they're hidden doesn't mean they aren't active -- those are constantly updating. look in activity monitor and see if any of the widgets you have are using a lot of cpu or memory even when they're hidden. that may mean a memory leak in the code, which means time to check with the developer for a newer version. and you'd probably do well to uninstall them until a newer, corrected version is out.

just a thought. widgets are great if they're done right.

[MikeTheVike]

speaking on widgets, have you opened activity monitor and tracked all the widgets you've installed? on some of them, especially the ones like weather or sport stats, just because they're hidden doesn't mean they aren't active -- those are constantly updating. look in activity monitor and see if any of the widgets you have are using a lot of cpu or memory even when they're hidden. that may mean a memory leak in the code, which means time to check with the developer for a newer version. and you'd probably do well to uninstall them until a newer, corrected version is out.

just a thought. widgets are great if they're done right.

Yea, I noticed they were taking up some memory. I downloaded a widget that closes all widgets when pressed. So if I want to use a widget, Ill press F12, then when I'm done I press on the widget that closes all of them rather than minimize them.