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Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive?

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On 2015-08-13 16:21, Tom Evans wrote:
> On 2015-07-26 13:42:00 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>
>> On 2015-07-24 14:10, Tom Evans wrote:
>>> On 2015-07-24 13:34:42 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>>>
>>>> On 2015-07-23 14:43, Tom Evans wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-07-23 17:06:50 +0000, Jolly Roger said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2015-07-23, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <2015072308541526320-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca>, Tom Evans
>>>>>>> <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I figure a new, replacement Imac would be better than an external
>>>>>>>> drive
>>>>>>>> because I don't have enough computing power.  My 2011 Imac
>>>>>>>> frequently
>>>>>>>> slows, so I have to keep on quitting Chrome and Photoshop and
>>>>>>>> logging
>>>>>>>> out and logging in to clear the slowdowns,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> quitting apps and certainly logging out/in will have no effect on a
>>>>>>> slowdown.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That seems like a pretty silly statement considering you know next to
>>>>>> nothing about the particular issue he is experiencing. It may very
>>>>>> well
>>>>>> be that something running while he is logged in is causing decreased
>>>>>> performance and logging out and back in may clear up the issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Activity Monitor > Memory > Memory shows the top of the list (things
>>>>> using the most memory) are:
>>>>>
>>>>> Photoshop - 10.22 GB
>>>>
>>>> 10.2 GB?
>>>>
>>>> Even if I load 10 raw (24 Mpix) CS5 shows 1.29 GB in Activity Monitor.
>>>>
>>>> Then I added seven 450 MB scans (6x6) and CS5 was at 4.83 GB.
>>>>
>>>> That's an awful lot of images to have loaded at once.  (I rarely have
>>>> more than 3 or 4, occasionally as many as 10).
>>>>
>>>> What the heck are you loading?
>>>
>>> I'm not loading anything unusual.
>>>
>>> Now I have four JPEGs and TIFFs open.  The biggest is 800 K.  Yet
>>> Activity Monitor still shows in Memory > Memory that Photoshop is at the
>>> top of the list, using 10.26 GB.
>>>
>>> So manybe this is where my "memory leak" is.
>>
>> Something very wrong with that.
>>
>> Open photoshop with no images open and see how much memory is being
>> used.  Should be quite small.  Then open one file and see how much,
>> and so on.
>>
>> Be sure you're looking at the application's memory and nothing else.
>
> Okay.  I did that.
>
> When I tried to quit Photoshop it quit unexpectedly.  I don't know if
> that's related to the problem.  (I had 15 JPEGs and TIFFs open.
>
> When I reopened Photoshop with one TIFF open, Activity Monitor > Memory
>> Memory says Photoshop used about 400 megabytes.
>
> I opened two more TIFFs and it says Photoshop is consuming over one
> gigabyte.

This sounds more normal than what you were posting before.

(10.26 GB).

So I believe part of the issue may be that you had far too many images 
loaded at a time for what I would usually consider an editing session. 
Perhaps you're not closing finished or discard-able work?

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Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-26 09:42 -0400
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-13 13:21 -0700
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-13 16:30 -0400
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-13 23:00 -0700
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-14 02:20 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-14 13:57 +0000
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-15 08:47 -0400
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-15 08:44 -0400
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-17 13:00 -0700
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-17 16:03 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-17 16:59 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-08-17 18:56 -0700

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