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Hawkeye69
Hawkeye69
Inspiring
March 3, 2023
Question

PS bloatware

  • March 3, 2023
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With the latest 24.2 release, PS now consumes over 5GB of system RAM w/o any files open or anything being edited. This is incredible. Every new release, the Adobe app gets more bloated and thus more prone to temporarily freezing while it loads or runs. 

 

By comparison, an equivalent app (Affinity Photo 2) uses only 400MB, loads 10X faster, runs quicker, and doesn't stall.

 

 

 

 

 

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2023

Not sure what you have going on there. I only have about 1 GB on a cold start, and that's on a fairly high-powered desktop machine:

 

 

I have to open 6-8 big files before it hits the 5 GB mark.

 

Note that if you have several files open and then close them, memory is not released. This is by design, and it has always worked that way. The reason is speed of operation. The memory is reused, and that is always much faster than requesting it from the OS all over again. That might not matter so much if you work slowly on single files - but imagine what it would do to batch actions!

 

People frequently complain that Photoshop is a "resource hog". That's true, it is - but only because it has to process huge amounts of data efficiently. Like any professional tool, Photoshop is optimized for getting the job done effectively. It makes no excuses for limited hardware resources. That's the user's responsibility.

    Hawkeye69
    Hawkeye69Author
    Inspiring
    March 3, 2023
    My files are 5-10MB max each, and I only had two open before I closed them
    all.
    Still had 5.2GB of system RAM locked by PS.

    Of course, it would take time to allocate, init and manage that much RAM,
    but it doesn't make any sense why PS would be doing that in the first place.
    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 3, 2023

    @Hawkeye69 if you quit PS does the memory release. What does it show when you first start up the application? How much total RAM do you have installed?

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