Specifying memory options
You can increase the amount of memory available using swap disks. When you perform an action that requires more RAM than is available in your computer, image information can be swapped to the hard disk. If you have two hard disks, or two partitions, you can set up both a primary and a secondary disk.
Although swap disks let you artificially increase the amount of memory available on your computer, swapping image information to hard disks requires more processing time than when it is sent to your computer’s RAM.
You can also choose how much of the available RAM on your computer is reserved for storing the images you open and edit. Set the amount of memory based on the type of work you perform and the number of applications you usually run simultaneously. If you increase the amount of memory reserved for images and find the application’s performance has decreased, you might need to reduce this amount so that more RAM is available to run the application.
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You should set the total amount of disk space two or three times larger than the size of your uncompressed images.
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Primary and secondary swap disk space are allocated to the user’s temp folder by default. You can change the swap disk space folder only if you have sufficient privileges on your system.
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The Memory usage area of the Memory page displays the total amount of memory available on your computer.
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In the Maximum box, type the percentage of the total memory you want to make available for storing drawings.
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