8GB RAM but still uses scratchdisk, why?
Hey,
running x64 version of Photoshop CS5 with windows 7 proffessional and 8gb ram but I still occasionaly (if the HDD is near full) get a "could not complete ... scratchdisk full" or similar error message (even just for simple tasks such a CtrlTransform or rotation).
It has long bugged me that it is even using a scratchdisk when it has access to 8gb ram, any explanation? It doesn't run extremely slow or anything so it can't be page filing *that* much.
Thanks in advance
Ok, I just ran a quick test and made a new black document 300000x300000px and duplicated the base layer 10 times.
I just go to use the brush tool on one of the layers and get "could not use the brush tool because the scratchdisks are full".
Windows Taskmanager reckons photoshop is using about 300mb RAM so it shouldn't even be *thinking* about page filing yet, and as you said, HDDs are dirt cheap and it has access to more than 1.5tb worth of internal HDDs if really wants to scratchdisk...
it feels like it's limited both in it's use of ram and use of hdd but i just double checked and it is allowed ~6gb ram and all HDDs are checked to be used as scratchdisks. perplexed
*edit*: it has allocated every scrap of space to itself on every hard drive available including an external so about 2.5TB
so why didn't it use reall memory first?
*edit2:* oh but i'm starting to see what's going on, in the same way it didn't need to write all those blank layers to the hdd it didn't actually need to use all that ram, each new layer was probably just a copy on-write pointer which means my test was meaningless
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