Insufficent ram to save error. cs5

[MBirkhofer]

I've now gotten this a few times, recently. Incredibly irritating.

Has anyone else? or know the cause of it.

Today was a 100M/400M, 4layer .psd.
PS can use 1499MB of my 4gigs of ram.
And 124gigs of free space on my scratch disk.

There is no way I was remotely actually out of ram.
I've worked with 40+layer files at 700M/2.4G before.

Bridge, windows media player, 2 tabs in firefox, and irc were open. Closing these does not help.

Thankfully, I learned a long time ago. Save and save often.

[Andy Elder]

No idea if it'd help, but have you tried "purge" in the edit menu? That's helped me a few times when it crawls to a halt.

[EdRyder]

I've now gotten this a few times, recently. Incredibly irritating.

Has anyone else? or know the cause of it.

Today was a 100M/400M, 4layer .psd.
PS can use 1499MB of my 4gigs of ram.
And 124gigs of free space on my scratch disk.

There is no way I was remotely actually out of ram.
I've worked with 40+layer files at 700M/2.4G before.

Bridge, windows media player, 2 tabs in firefox, and irc were open. Closing these does not help.

Thankfully, I learned a long time ago. Save and save often.

From my point of view its never been about whats actually running at the time but rather whats running in the background. If you were to run a program like 'Whats Running" how many services instances would there be?
See: gigs of space,amount of RAM or a gigantic chunk of scratch memory dont mean anything to the OS when some programs set aside an "allotment" of memory for their programs. Thats whats I presume is conflicting with CS5 in your case.
My advice : Find out how many services are running. Then disable the ones you can do without. (IDK what your OS is btw)
Try = http://www.blackviper.com/
Read it thorough before you take any actions tho

[Chris Summers]

I have noticed that CS5 eats up allot more ram than CS4 did. I was working today on a pic and I noticed that of my 8 gig of Ram I currently had 7.2 in use and PS was getting kinda laggy. I saved shut down CS5 and the ram usage dropped to 1.9 gig. I have PS set to use 60% of my Ram but it seems like it will use more if it feels like it. My advice is get something that will let you keep a eye on your current Ram usage and if you notice it getting pretty hi save and restart CS5.

[EdRyder]

Wow , You're saying cs5 is using over 5 gigs of RAM all on its own.. ,

And here I am always crying that Painters punk ass self vanishes on a whim.

I gotta say I dont really see the point in a application that gauges how much RAM is being used. After reading your post, I think Id rather not know
Probly' the same reason why I dont calculate all the fuel Ive used at the end of every month.

But going back to my original point(I'm pretty sure its been discussed/addressed here previously but I'm much to lazy to find the original thread) Just because you have 8 gigs of RAM installed ,sadly, doesn't mean you have 8 gigs to play with. I still haven't found the magic bullet but I promise you if you go in and eliminate all the unessentials in services.msc Mr.Chris, you'll notice a performance bump.

[Zombie Dave McCaig]

Photoshop 5 is a ridiculous resource hog, and seems really bad at freeing up memory once it's dug its claws into it.

[MBirkhofer]

I almost think there is a memory "leak".

It does seem to grab memory and not let go of it. Until you eventually run out.
So, if you do too much transforming, filters, etc. you run out. And need to restart.

I'm running 32bit Vista. And like I said, shutting down other programs didn't help at all.
And running with my task manager open, it was clear they other applications were tiny.

[Zombie Dave McCaig]

They can't blame Apple this time. It happens on both platforms.

[Jasen Smith]

Wow, I can say I haven't had any issues so far with CS5, it runs faster than CS4 that I was using and loads faster as well. Glad to see the selection tool improved, before I'd be selecting something when doing flats and the selection would just complete itself. Thought it was the wireless mouse I was using but after 2 other mice I still had the problem.
CS5 has fixed this and seems to have fixed a lot of other issues...except the ones you guys are having :p

[danny daniels]

Okay, I was thinking of getting CS5, but after reading this thread, I'm not sure. I have the new iMac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Lep. My processor is 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 1067 MHz Ram. Judging from what has been mentioned so far, do you think I would encounter problems if I install CS5 on this system. CS4 has a quirk that I cannot figure out. In PS, if I open another file and want to use the Lasso or Brush, when I start to use it, the actual application of the Lasso or Brush is about 2 mm. away from the tool indicator. So if I make a point or stroke, the tool symbol is a bit above where the

the tool itself

is working. I usually have to Relaunch the Finder or close one of the windows or restart PS to rid me of this problem. Anyone else experience this?

Thanks for any tips.

-- danny