Photoshop CC -> performance down, memory usage up.

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June 27, 2013
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I recently switched to Photoshop CC.

I noticed performance was slow, memory usage was huge. At first I thought it might be because I was processing somewhat larger panoramas than previous ( eg merging 25 images at 21 MP each ).

Then my SSD drive crashed when the sysem ran out of memory, and I can't recover it.

I reinstalled Mac OSX 10.7.5 on the original HD and re-installed PS. Now my network bandwidth has jumped from under 1 GB uploaded per day, to 20GB, 30GB, 44 GB uploaded.

I don't know how much of this can be traced to PS CC, other than it's slow performance and high memory usage, but it' a suspicious coincidence.

Tom Legrady

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Correct answer Chris Cox

That would be because the memory usage is about the same as previous versions, and we don't know of any major memory leaks in Photoshop CC (we do a lot of testing to find and eliminate memory leaks in Photoshop).

And because we've seen third party drivers and third party plugins with memory leaks.

If Photoshop consumes that much RAM without opening any documents - then you have about 6 Gigs of presets being loaded at launch (which is presets that you added, because by default Photoshop doesn't load that many presets, and consumes under 300 Meg at launch).

If you mean that Photoshop cosumes that much after closing documents - then that is how much you allocated to Photoshop and used in your documents. Photoshop not releasing memory back to the system until exit is perfectly normal behavior (otherwise it would run much slower).

We can try to help you determine what is consuming memory on your system.

But insisting that Photoshop is the cause when it is easily verified as not being the cause, won't help you.

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Chris Cox

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Photoshop isn't uploading much unless you tell it to (like sync preferences).

And the only thing it download by default is Lens Profiles.

The CreativeCloud app does most of the downloading, when you tell it to install new apps.

MacOS does get really flaky when the OS volume runs out of space - that should be avoided if at all possible.

And Photoshop CC doesn't have increased memory usage over Photoshop CS6.

I think you're looking at some coincidences, or bugs we just haven't seen (like corrupt fonts, bad third party plugins, etc.).

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I have always worked with super huge files, because my designers never throw anything away, but since the switch my system slowed down incredibly. my file size is 250M using 150M and I show I have 750GB Free. i don't think it's a memory issue. I do see there is a Background File activity but I think it is from Dreamweaver. any hints, tricks??