Photoshop CC RAM

I just upgraded from 8GB of ram to 32GB of ram. I still can't process the HDR images. It say that I don't have enough ram to complete the camera raw filter task. How do I fix this? I have been in preferences-performance it did not help.

Sorry to bug again, I have not had the ram error pop up, but the intense slow down is still occurring after a few hours of painting. I am not painting at super resolution sizes, right now roughly 3k x 2k at 72 dpi (really not that big in terms of paintings.)
I was able to capture the processing memory before on the task manager before I restarted my computer. Hopefully these images are clearer when I post them...
I Kept painting and by the time I decided I should restart it was sitting at 7 million. Even after I closed all of the files and it was simply photoshop running the amoutn of memory it was soaking up seems high.
After restarting I opened it up fresh and loaded in the same image I had been working on and it leveled out at a much lower number. 450k
I dont know why there is such a difference in memory size. It is like it keeps the memory running for every image I had opened up even if I close it. After shutting down photoshop, I noticed that it was still running in the processes in the background for another several minutes. I tried to end the process manually but it rejected it saying that wasn't allowed.
Is this normal photoshop behavior?

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