Settings for "Memory & Image Cache"?

[D. Brinkmann]

What determines what # goes in "Cache Settings"? Do I want "Histograms" on or off?

Memory Usuage...Avail. "227"

Max used...75% =170 (these are current readings) Do they make sense? I think I have 256 Ram...total. Thanks for any info. I tried search and couldn't find answers. Help just gave definitions. Dorothy

[Leen Koper]

The computer I use only for imaging purposes has 1024 Ram. I had the percentage set to 95% because there are hardly any other applications running. A colleague advised me to set it to a maximum of 75%. Ignorant as I am, I followed his advice and since I didnot see a message displayed any more that I ran out of virtual memory, whatever that might be.
I never understood this message...
Nevertheess I consider buying another extra 1024. Sometimes I seem to be rather impatient. Never considered myself impatient until I started to do some digital imaging.

Leen

[Ray]

Nothing else visibly running doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing
running. Windows XP (and 98 / ME alike) uses services to maintain a machine
running. Services don't usually show up as icons on the system tray (near
the clock) but they do consumes a certain part of the computer RAM. These
services include any anti-virus software, firewall, communications protocol
(internet), etc.

If you'd like to know how much memory Windows XP uses, first perform a
reboot and don't launch any applications upon rebooting (print this note if
you have to). Then go into the Task Manager (right click anywhere on the
task bar where there's no program icon, then click on Task Manager). Select
the Performance Tab, then look at the number under Physical Memory (Kb)
(it's on the lower part of this screen, after the moving charts). The first
number indicates the total RAM your system has, and the second one,
Available, is what is left for your applications. So, if you set RAM
available for PSE greater than this number, you're sure to force Windows to
use Virtual Memory more intensively. I say more intensively because Windows
always uses Virtual Memory, regarless of your system's physical memory.

Ray

[Leen Koper]

ray, thank you for this explanation. I'll try this tomorrow on the computer in the studio.

Now I'm going sit and watch the baseball game of our Dutch national team vs Cuba.
More important than Photoshop!
;-))

Leen

[Chuck Snyder]

Leen, the breadth of your interests is truly impressive! Hope the game
turns out well!!

Chuck

[Leen Koper]

"We" did beat them 2-1 !
Partly thanks to Davey Johnson, our US coach.
My main interests are about:
etymology, sports, environmental issues, archeology, visual arts, politics, music, from gregorian chants to Van Morrison, economy, sociology and many other things.
But, first of all, IMAGING!

I am very grateful to my parents who, despite small financial means in the difficult post war years were able to provide me and my sisters with a very good education. This was quite exceptional in these years as I was the only one with working class roots in my final examination class.

Now I can speak/understand 4 different languages, know a little about everything and I am able to socialise with people of all kinds of social and cultural backgrounds. I have discussed and dined both with members of the UK House of Lords in luxurious ancient castles and in small cheap restaurants with colleagues living from day to day from their small earnings.

I'm extremely proud of my parents; it was their accomplishment that brought me to where I am now.

Leen