Re: [APML] OT: memory usage by PhotoShop

[Duncan Munro <dmunro@sfu.ca>]

You have run into the 2 gig per process limit of win32. IIRC some 
windows server versions (winXP pro sever) can extend this limit by 
setting a switch in the boot ini file,so it may be worth investigating.


Linux has no per process memory limit AFAIK.  You might might to install 
linux on a spare partition and then use the GIMP to access all your RAM. 
There was a version of Corel Photopaint 9 that was ported to Linux as 
well.  Depending on the size of your images and the tasks involved it 
might be significantly faster to pre-process them with the GIMP and then 
boot to WinXP to finish off with Photoshop.

cheers

Duncan Munro


Wei-Hao Wang wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a PhotoShop question.  My PS version is CS.  Operating
>system is WinXP.  I have 4GB of memory and WinXP can locate 3.6GB.
>I went to PS and tried to increase the memory used by PS.  
>However, PS showed that the maximum memory used by PS is 1.77GB.
>
>Is there any way to make PS use more memory?  Why in my computer
>PS can only use 50% of the memory?
>
>Many thanks!
>
>Wei-Hao
>
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