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Photoshop: Is there a way to free up memory used by Photoshop?
When Im working with large files photoshop eats up my memory and even if I clear the history and close the file I do not get my memory back, I have to quit photoshop and restart it?
Im using Mac snow leopard with latest updates.
Im using Mac snow leopard with latest updates.
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adam_jerugim
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There is a significant performance benefit to allocating and re-using memory instead of de-allocating and re-allocating it each time we need it.
If you want more RAM available to other applications and the OS, lower the PS RAM % in Photoshop Preferences > Performance.
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See: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/786514... for explanations by one of its engineers.
Look also at: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404439... or search for 'memory and performance" in the help files.
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josh_gordon
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When I'm done using this image and close it, this memory should be RETURNED to the system -- instead of just sitting there with Photoshop.exe at over a gigabyte. I've heard programmers use the term "garbage collection" and I think this is what Photoshop needs to do better.
I find myself continuously RESTARTING Photoshop due to this poor release of memory. Otherwise, the application becomes entirely unusable --- even on a modern quad core system with 8GB of RAM.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Why doesn't Photoshop release memory after a file is closed?.
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josh_gordon
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The issue again is that after I work with large files and PS's memory has ballooned up to 1GB or more, everything in Photoshop slows to a crawl and becomes unresponsive. As I indicated, the only way to solve this is to restart PS, which is why -- despite was said above about a "performance benefit to allocating and re-using memory" -- the inability to use PS becomes a serious problem. If there was a way to clear memory (maybe a command in a menu?) or better yet, PS did this automatically, that would help this situation considerably.
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photoshop_faq
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"Please look at the TaskManager and observe how memory is never released until you quit Photoshop - not even when you close a file. This is very very wrong."
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marcus_johnson_3780686
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop doesn't release memory after closing all open documents..
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bruce_jamieson_4226273
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I had also figured this might be a product of the auto-save feature that Photoshop now has, which is awesome, but still it's annoying.
-Bruce!
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PS CS6: Memory leak?.
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The only way i can get Photoshop to do that is by closing it completely, then i have to re-open photoshop for the next file i wanna work on.
If i don't close it after each file the ram memory usage just keeps piling up, so that after 3 panoramas or HDRs my 8GBs are full and my PC slows right down.
This is a rather stupid problem to have, (i haven't seen any option in the preferences to fix this) i need an update to fix this asap.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
PS6 not clearing the RAM it's using after closing a file.
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