How much ram,etc.??

Friends -
I am running OS10.4.6 on 384 mb sdram. mostly all works satisfactorily.
occasionally when I transfer photos or certain graphics into MSWD I get the spinning wheel and have to force quit and start over.
I also get the wheel on occasion elsewhere but almost always resoves within seconds.
I have read many different suggestions including that 384 is fine, 512 is better but no more needed, all the way up to suggesting 1gb.
I thought I had one port left, but about this Mac says I have DIMM0/J21: Size:128MB; DIMM1/J22: Size:256 MB; DIMM2/J23: Size: Empty; DIMM3/J24: Size:Empty so do I have to ports left?
Your thoughts appreciated on these two questions?
thanks.
Larry
Leeds, MA USA
PowerMac G4 Tower
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
384MB SDRAM
CPU Speed: 733 MHz
Verizon 784mhz DSL

Mostly it depends on what sort of applications you use, how many processes you have running, etc. There's really no magic number. For some 2 GBs isn't enough while for others 512 MBs is more than adequate.
In my opinion I would not recommend using OS X with less than 512 MBs of RAM.
If you want to try and gauge your memory needs then after using your computer for several days take a look at the Pageouts and Pageins and size of your swapfile(s). You can open the Terminal and at the prompt enter "top -S" and press return (omit the quotes.) In the top part of the displayed output you will see two sets of figures that may look like this: 100993(0) pageins, 173314(0) pageouts. The values in the parentheses are the important figures. If the one for Pageouts is not zero (0) then that means you don't have sufficient RAM for the processes currently running and the OS has to page out to the VM swapfile. You will also see the size of your swapfile. It will look something like this: Swap: 1.08G + 942M free. Usually OS X allocates swap space in 64 MB chunks first, then 128 MB chunks, then 256 MB chunks as the system demands. If you typically have a large value in the parentheses of Pageouts and also have a large swapfile, then you need more RAM. If the value in parentheses of Pageouts is zero, then you have adequate RAM.
top will also report the information on active, free, and inactive RAM just as Activity Monitor does. Your total available RAM at any time is the sum of inactive and free RAM. If that sum is typically small then you need more RAM or you need to quit some applications.

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OK, I have now copied your hillbilly text and pasted it into a text editor to change the typeface so I can read it.
I'll try to address the lose ends here.
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Obviously the internal drive will be your boot disk. Adobe applications really like to reside on the boot disk, the drive where the OS resides.
B:When I exit the program does it delete all the data it created?
This question is two fold, does it delete it regardless if I saved the project or not?
If I save the project does it stay there? What if I delete the original photo, was the photo imported into photoshop upon camera raw?
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Please forget anything you may be accustomed to in Lightroom and/or iPhoto, and approach Photoshop with a fresh mind, respecting it like the granddaddy of image editors it is.
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How much RAM can I add to my MacBook
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