Photoshop 25.0 killing RAM when using new Remove Tool

I did some quick testing on a big file while monitoring the scratch file size. It did grow quite rapidly, so apparently it needs to move a lot of data. I can easily imagine that if you keep working with this tool for a while, you can run out of disk space if you don't have a lot to begin with.

As I said, no free lunch. My recommendation for at least 500 GB free space, but preferably more, stands.

This isn't RAM, it's virtual memory - in other words scratch disk. You're running out of disk space.

While it's definitely high, there are many situations where a 160 GB scratch file is normal and expected. I don't know what you do. I always advise users to have at least 250 GB free space, but preferably 500 GB and up. The scratch file contains all history states for all open documents, so it's orders of magnitude bigger than your nominal starting file sizes.

I haven't particularly looked at memory usage for the Remove tool, but generally, I've noticed that that these AI functions are very resource-intensive and put much higher demands on your hardware than traditional editing. You know what they say: there is no free lunch.

I'll check on my own machine later.