Raw deal with CS5

I could have 16 (20Mb or so) files open in CS4, use Nik plugins on each one, sometimes several times, with never a crash. CS5 crashes all the time, sometimes when Nik plugins are in use, sometimes not. It often crashes when I attempt to save Jpeg 2000 files, or else saves them with a size of 0 bites. I did a lengthy session yesterday morning, it must have crashed a dozen times. I thought I would be safe if I limited myself to processing 3 files at once, but no (although it does take longer before it crashes). Out of memory errors for Content Aware Fill so one has to do larger areas in several pieces. Exactly the same set up as for CS4. It is very difficult to regard whatever Adobe has done to the program as progress, or to put all the blame on the sloppiness of plugin writers when the program will crash sooner or later anyway without anyone's help. Chris, this situation is bordering on the farcical. It reminds me of Windows 98 which you had to restart several times a day. You let this program out of the door way before it was ready. I hope you guys have an update well on the way.

Plugin writers often don't have a good feel for how to use dynamic memory (i.e., to allocate and deallocate buffers in a way that plays well with Photoshop), and VERY few actually make their code resilient enough to handle memory allocation failures gracefully. To be fair, it's difficult to do right - such error handling needs to be taken into account in the very design itself, not added on later.
To top it off, Adobe doesn't make it all that easy, insofar as they do not allow the plugin writer to call the Photoshop buffer suite from within any thread other than the one they call the plugin on (and any plugin worth its salt is multithreaded in today's computing environment). This means that a plugin can't easily share in the memory allocated via your preference setting for Photoshop's memory allocation percentage in the intended way, but instead must actually "fight" the system for the memory that's left over.
This isn't intended to answer this thread, but to inform.
-Noel

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