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You know, when a machine has 8GB of RAM and 4GB of HD space (on an SSD) and a photo editing app manages to use all of it ...

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Aug 18 '12, 13:24

... perhaps the makers of that application should be embarrassed.

But nooo.

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not photoshop? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 18, 13:27 4
- no, not photoshop. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 18, 13:30 3
  - it still might need scratch disk space -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 18, 14:47 2
    - I can't conceive of a reason why it would need this much memory and hard drive space just to apply some filters to some images. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 18, 14:49 1
      - It's not even a bulk job - one at a time. It must not be cleaning up its memory usage. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 18, 14:50

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