John, Did you also adjust the size of your swap file when you increased the RAM? I think the waits you experience may be related to disk I/O, somehow.
Jostein 2010/3/23 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>: > Semi-OT, since I use Photoshop for the photos I take with my Pentax cameras. > > I posted earlier that I had upgraded the memory in my laptop to the maximum > 4GB, although 32 bit Vista only "sees" something like 2.5GB for some reason. > I knew it wouldn't be able to "see" the whole 4GB, but I thought it should > be able to "see" 3GB. > > I've noticed that since the memory increase Photoshop CS3 seems to be > performing more poorly. It takes longer to load, and gives more of those > blank screen "not responding" episodes. I've even had a couple of crashes > where it just stopped working altogether and had to be closed using task > manager. > > Any thoughts? > > My plan is still to eventually do a clean install of 64 bit Windows 7 so it > can see the whole 4GB RAM, but I'm waiting both for the early bugs to be > found & corrected and for a little extra money to come my way so I can > install it on a larger hard drive. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
