n- linear action - memory

[jonsimpson]

Hey Folks:
I've been trying to run the non linear sharpener.....but I keep getting the
"not enough memory" message.

I have 512mb for gosh sakes. Gave 75% to photoshop. Need even more?

Jon

[Georgees]

What operating system are you using.

If you are using Windows 98 the total amount of available installed RAM on your machine makes little or no difference. Memory management in W98 is pitiful. It still suffers from left over DOS first megabyte limitations. So if you are on W98 move on to something better such as W2000 or WXP. Sorry, a lot of cost and effort but worth it in the long run.

G Smith

(Been in the IT industry for 30 some years now. Seen it all)

[Pekka]

In Windows 98 you can run:sysedit and edit
SYSTEM.INI's line [vcache] to

[vcache]
MinFileCache = 8192
MaxFileCache = 8192

Reboot, and this will stop filecache management and fix it to 8 megabytes. If you don't do this the vcache fill whole RAM very quickly and you're swapping in no time. If you run out of swap you'll have"out of memory errors".

Photoshop is very poorly designed in its memory handling, a dozen history steps for 18MB photo can eat 300MB RAM. You have to define in photoshop disks which it can use as virtual memory, if you run out of those you're stuck.

So there are two swap setups and two separate RAM management systems going on when you run Photoshop!

You could speed up Photoshop by tips like http://www.tema.ru/p/h/o/t/o/s/h/o/p/ram.html but in any case Adobe should really bring the software to modern world asap :)

[Pekka]

Georgees wrote:
So if you are on W98 move on to something better such as W2000 or WXP. Sorry, a lot of cost and effort but worth it in the long run.

I agree totally.

[soumya63]

Pekka wrote:
In Windows 98 you can run:sysedit and edit
SYSTEM.INI's line [vcache] to

[vcache]
MinFileCache = 8192
MaxFileCache = 8192

Reboot, and this will stop filecache management and fix it to 8 megabytes. If you don't do this the vcache fill whole RAM very quickly and you're swapping in no time. If you run out of swap you'll have"out of memory errors".

Photoshop is very poorly designed in its memory handling, a dozen history steps for 18MB photo can eat 300MB RAM. You have to define in photoshop disks which it can use as virtual memory, if you run out of those you're stuck.

So there are two swap setups and two separate RAM management systems going on when you run Photoshop!

You could speed up Photoshop by tips like http://www.tema.ru/p/h/o/t/o/s/h/o/p/ram.html but in any case Adobe should really bring the software to modern world asap :)


Sorry Pekka, that tip will work for Win95 only. Win98 has a fix for that. So if you put those line in the System.ini file, it will actually cause more problem.

1) I would suggest, go to control panel and check the virtual memory setting. You may need to increase you swap file size. Make it permanent also.

2) Reboot the machine.

3) The other things that will help is to close all other applications while running photoshop.

3) Close all those applications from the task bar such as different messengers, virus scanners, fax, Adaptec CD burner etc.

4) Disable all Screen saver.

Now give it a try. Best of luck

[soumya63]

To learn more check it out http://www.aumha.org/a/memmgmt.htm

[Jim Higgins]

Try a different browser or browser version. I had the same problem. I would get the same "not enough memory" message when I used Netscape 4.7. However, when I switched browsers to Netscape 6.0, I was able to download and install.