Am I running out of memory?

[TikiTorture]

I have a massive 90 page PDF that I'm editing in illustrator. It is a design for an App, the pages have many simple graphics, some photos and text. 

I think the laptop's memory is maxed out. Navigating through the artboards is starting to get choppy. There's a delay when I type text. And the app is generally sluggish and spontaneously closes toolbars or changes the view. 

I want to avoid starting another file because I'm constantly pulling things from other artboards & editing earlier pages. Is there something I can do to speed up the app or free up some memory? 

any info is helpful, thanks. 

My laptop is running 16 GB DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8 GB).

Graphics card is Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 2060 6GB.

[Doug A Roberts]

Check your task manager to see how much RAM Illustrator is actually used during these tasks.

[TikiTorture]

This is where I'm at right now.  Seems like there is some room left, but I'm not really understanding what I'm looking at entirely. 

[Anubhav M]

Hello @TikiTorture,

Sorry to hear about your experience. I would suggest you work around this problem by splitting the PDF into groups of 10 artboards and then combining them later on in Acrobat.

In addition to this you may also try the suggestions in this article: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/resolve-slow-performance-and-unexpected-behav...

I hope it helps.

Thanks,

Anubhav

[TikiTorture]

Thanks for the reply.  Want to avoid muliple files if possible.  

Also found this resource:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/optimize-illustrator-performance-windows.html