Photoshop is using 4-6GB of RAM and hanging up

Since the most recent cc update to 14.1.2 Ps is hanging up on simple tasks such as cropping images. Activity Monitor shows 4-6GB of RAM being used by Ps. This problem does not occur in CS6 which is using under 800 MB of RAM and cropping 200MB files without any problem.
Can someone make a recommendation on how to remedy this problem?
Thanks in Advance,
Celeste

Hi Mandhir,
Thanks for getting back to me. Is it common for Ps CC to utilize between
4-6GB of RAM? My Macbook Pro is maxed out at 8GBŠ Photoshop doesn't leave
much available at that utilization. CS6 only uses 800MBŠ I've never had a
problem editing images with that configuration.
All of the performance settings are optimized to the KB you sent over I
went through that over the weekend.
I think I may have found a bug as well in the crop tool. When I changed the
setting in the crop tool from 'fixed' to 'original' ratio Ps didn't hang up..
I can repeat the problemŠ
Set the crop tool to fixed W x H, add only one measurement such as 1600px w,
leave the height field empty (for example), set res to 96 DPI and then
cropŠ. Ps will hang up every time.
Celeste Guidice
Nashua Adobe User Group Manage

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