How much RAM do you have? and do you think you have enough?

I have 16gig ram, but don't forget that the clock speed is important, you need fast speeds and a motherboard that supports those speeds. saying that, I would like the go to 32 gig ram one day and max it out, I REALLY want to get 32 gig @2133 clock speed just because my motherboard supports it, not many do so may as well maximise it.
 
No matter how much ram you have PS will use the scratch disk. Set it to a different drive than your boot disk. The ideal is a dedicated SSD thats not used for anything else. Makes a big difference.
 
PS makes a scratch disk no matter how much RAM you have. Look at the scratch size by using the tab at the bottom left, the same one you use to look at efficency (right click on it)
 
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PS makes a scratch disk no matter how much RAM you have. Look at the scratch size by using the tab at the bottom left, the same one you use to look at efficency (right click on it)
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it makes one but does it use it, thats the question..

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-748aa.html

"When your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation, Photoshop uses a proprietary virtual memory technology, also called scratch disks."
 
Yet another "yours is bigger than mine" thread. Boring.
 
4GB of DDR2 here. The information super backroad! :D

Thankfully LR3 doesn't seem to mind too much with my camera's relatively small 8MP files.
 
its not the size of the nail its the size of the hammer hitting it.

8gb here does what i need it too, handles everything i chuck at and more
 
Mac mini i7
128gb ssd
1tb sata
16gb RAM
USB3

Great little machine hooked up to a nice 24" dell ips monitor

Mainly use it for Lightroom, handbrake, running several virtual machines and iTunes.

I find RAM is my limiting factor when it comes to the vm's but apart from that its fantastic
 
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I know this thread's about RAM but it made me curious to fire-up the performance meter and have a butchers at what's going on while editing one of my 8MP image files (in LR3).

The RAM usage was comfortably within my PC's limitations - coming in at around 2GB with a few selection brush "layers" on the go - but my CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo running at 3.8GHz) was hitting 100% usage on both cores briefly with almost every operation.

It doesn't seem to hold things up too much but doesn't have much (any?) headroom as far as the CPU goes. She needs more cores, kiptin!
 
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