Photoshop CS5 memory dump

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

Ok after I have worked on something like a 600mb file and close it photoshop still holds about 1.5gig of memory dispite closing the image. Its only upon closing photoshop it is released.

Is there any support for allowing the memory to be dumped after closing a file because its really affecting the overall performance of the computer

Got 4 gig of ram
an 8 gig usb stick as readyboost
320 usb hdd as scratch disk

windows 7

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

Readyboost isn't going to aid your system IO when you've got >4GB RAM really. I'd recommend a wiser solution and that is to get an additional 4GB of RAM which will greatly improve the performance of your OS under the usage pattern you've described.

It's also very quick to close + re-open Photoshop though, maybe takes 3 seconds max on a HDD unless Windows has switched to your pagefile because of all your RAM being utilised and so everything slows a bit.

In which case more RAM

Would be easier said than done but its a laptop xps

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

This isn't a bad shout and for £28 to boost it up to 8gb, Well worth the extra 30quid pal.

Its a Dell Laptop. Can it have 8Gig of ram?

Also purge isn't doing anything to help.