Briefly: Apple's Leopard to boost Photoshop performance
Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. are reportedly working behind the scenes to improve the performance of Adobe's Photoshop under Apple's next-generation Leopard operating system.
In an forum post made a few weeks ago, Adobe's Russell Williams explained how the integration of Photoshop with Leopard, due out a bit later this spring, will overcome an existing barrier to performance in the current version of the Mac OS X.
"Buffering is disabled by default in CS3 (Creative Suite 3) when running on Tiger because of an OS issue. Every 30 seconds, the OS pauses Photoshop for anywhere from a fraction of a second to several seconds as it manages that giant buffer cache," he wrote.
"If you're painting, this is a big problem, and it's why we made the 'disable VM buffering' plugin available for CS2. Apple says that issue is fixed in Leopard, but we haven't verified that yet."
In his post, Williams said Adobe's current plan for Photoshop CS3 is to enable VM buffering for big RAM machines running Leopard and disable it for Tiger.
"But we'll provide an 'enable VM buffering' plugin to override this on Tiger if you don't mind the Tiger pause," he added.
In an forum post made a few weeks ago, Adobe's Russell Williams explained how the integration of Photoshop with Leopard, due out a bit later this spring, will overcome an existing barrier to performance in the current version of the Mac OS X.
"Buffering is disabled by default in CS3 (Creative Suite 3) when running on Tiger because of an OS issue. Every 30 seconds, the OS pauses Photoshop for anywhere from a fraction of a second to several seconds as it manages that giant buffer cache," he wrote.
"If you're painting, this is a big problem, and it's why we made the 'disable VM buffering' plugin available for CS2. Apple says that issue is fixed in Leopard, but we haven't verified that yet."
In his post, Williams said Adobe's current plan for Photoshop CS3 is to enable VM buffering for big RAM machines running Leopard and disable it for Tiger.
"But we'll provide an 'enable VM buffering' plugin to override this on Tiger if you don't mind the Tiger pause," he added.
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All I can say, is that running PS 7 on a new Intel Quad 2.66 with 4gb of RAM is mind-numbing. I know it's running rosetta, but COME ON!
'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.
Briefly is spelt incorrectly.
'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.
nice first post
Briefly is spelt incorrectly.
'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.
What about "weird"?
What about "weird"?
Weird is a weird exception.
Edit; Dayam, ya beat me to it, DM.
What about "weird"?
I always just go with "I before E except when not," then leave it up to the spell-checker. There's too many rulebreakers with that one to memorize them all.
However, `` In an forum post made a few weeks ago...'' should read:
In a forum post made a few weeks ago...
You place an n when the proceeding word begins with a vowel.
Here comes the grammar police.
Actually that would be "Here come the grammar police." But you were probably just fishing.
Doesn't sound like their working together *too* closely....
Actually that would be "Here come the grammar police." But you were probably just fishing.
Guess he figured his nearly 3k posts was not enough... :P I mean, I should be the one trying for it, not him.
"Buffering is disabled by default in CS3 (Creative Suite 3) when running on Tiger because of an OS issue. Every 30 seconds, the OS pauses Photoshop for anywhere from a fraction of a second to several seconds as it manages that giant buffer cache," he wrote.
This may shed some light on some of the issues I am experiencing in PS CS3. I have the dual Xeon 3.0 mac pro with 8 gigs of ram but it never seems to use more than 4 gigs no matter how many applications I have open. Of course PS is running in Rosetta but I still use CS3 Beta exclusively all day long and it works pretty well aside from the occasional beach ball which may be explained by this buffer cache thing.
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Here comes the grammar police.
and the gandpa police not far behind
I guess this should prepare us for CS3 performing just as badly on MacTels with tiger as CS2 does on the same setup.
It doesn't though. I run CS3 beta all the time now under Tiger and with the exception of the lack of brush icons (guess they weren't working with Apple at that point), it runs great. Much faster than CS2. It's good news that it will be even faster under Leopard though.
This also goes for the new Maya 8.5 universal binary, which finally makes Maya usable under OS X. Still doesn't support hardware rendering with the GMA though.
I run CS3 beta all the time now under Tiger and with the exception of the lack of brush icons
Which is why I run it in Rosetta, to get back the brush sizes. I can't function without accurate diameters for the brushes.