Put the old chip back in and see if things pick back up.
You may have a bad memory module (OS-8 is not really picky about the
memory chips, it will work around a bad one). OS-9 became more picky,
and OS-X refuses to work with bad chips.
Jerry
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 03:07 PM, Beth Ernst wrote:
> I dropped Photoshop's memory requirements back to about 40MB. The file
> in
> question right now is only 15MB and there is over 1GB free on the hard
> drive. Opening, closing and saving files is horribly slow now.
>
> Beth
>
>> Beth:
>>
>> I remember reading somewhere that Photoshop had it's own virtual
>> memory system
>> and changing the memory partition was actually detrimental.
>>
>> Try resetting it closer to the recommended size and see what happens.
>>
>> The only other thing I can think of is the state of the scratch disk.
>> Is there
>> enough blank space to hold a file three times larger than the one on
>> which you
>> are working?
>>
>> rob
>>
>> Beth Ernst wrote:
>>
>>> Hello great Mac gurus,
>>>
>>> Another problem and this one may bring back some fond memories of
>>> days and
>>> systems past.
>>>
>>> I have a user on OS 8.1 running Photoshop 5.5. She originally had
>>> 128MB of
>>> RAM with 30MB assigned to PhotoShop. Virtual memory is turned off.
>>> She was
>>> working fine speed-wise but began getting messages about not having
>>> enough
>>> memory so I removed one 32MB chip and replaced it with a 128MB.
>>>
>>> Now she has 224MB total RAM. I assigned 100MB of it to PhotoShop.
>>> She is
>>> only running PhotoShop and Quark (with about 30MB assigned to it).
>>> Now when
>>> she is in PhotoShop it is performing slower than it did prior to
>>> adding
>>> memory. Any suggestions as to why and what adjustments I can make to
>>> correct
>>> the problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help!
>>> Beth
>>>
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>>
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>
> --
> Thanks!
> Beth
>
>
>
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