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Offline domphoto

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cache settings
« on: February 27, 2008, 08:10:23 AM »
can you please let me know what the maximum values are for the cache dialog window....

i have 16gb of ram available, and i would like to access as much of this as possibble....

disk cache size ?
reserve at least ?

memory cache size  ????MB

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Re: cache settings
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2008, 09:12:42 AM »
can you please let me know what the maximum values are for the cache dialog window....

i have 16gb of ram available, and i would like to access as much of this as possibble....

disk cache size ?
reserve at least ?

memory cache size  ????MB

What OS are you running?

I wouldn't set the Memory Cache any higher than 2048 MB.  Photo Mechanic is a 32-bit application and as such is only given a 4 GB address space.
I recommend a Disk Cache size of 1024 MB max.  Anything higher gives diminishing returns.
Reserve 512 MB.

-Kirk