Chris Cox: Update and interesting fix for Slow CS startup

JK
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Julian_K
Nov 26, 2003
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Now this is really funny. Since I had to delete my pref file due to errors on opening files in CS ( probably related to unwillingly launching CS help), I noticed that CS seemed generally smoother at first default settings startup. So I only loaded my custom pattern set to see what happens and guess what.. even with that CS is starting quick.
To put a long story shorter, here is what I found out. ON the contrary to what every version of PS tells you first, setting C: as the scratch disk makes CS fast. I have several hard disks and partitions, and 2 only scratch/swap purposes but setting any of them for CS, except for C will make it load painfully slow.
Isn’t that odd? Especially since before that I had a clean empty and defragged partition dedicated as the CS scratch exclusively.

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LH
Lawrence_Hudetz
Nov 26, 2003
Painfully slow? Can you quantify the differences? I have scratch on it’s own partition and I don’t see the problem. But I haven’t tried using C for scratch.

BTW, if "C" is quite large, like 20 G and one is only using it for OS and programs, is it still advisable to separate PS scratch from "C"?
JK
Julian_K
Nov 26, 2003
sure can. how about a difference of 8-10 seconds versus 1 minute and 15 seconds for CS to start up. and C here is large ( 80 G) and only for OS and still having it as scratch for CS is the only solution for me. The OS swap is not set on C now though.
LH
Lawrence_Hudetz
Nov 27, 2003
That is painful!

My system, an 850 MHz Athlon CPU with 12G Ram, brand new HD starts in 17 seconds (I just timed it).
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dave_milbut
Nov 27, 2003
12 gig of ram?!!
MH
matthew_hattie
Nov 27, 2003
That’s what I was thinking? :S
JK
Julian_K
Nov 27, 2003
well, with drive c: as scratch its not painful anymore 🙂 as odd as that may seem.
PC
Pierre_Courtejoie
Nov 27, 2003
Julian, you say that your partition was not fragmented, but was it at the end of the disk (where it is slower)? Is it on another disk?
Does it use ata100/133 isn’t it shared with slower disks on the channel?
JK
Julian_K
Nov 27, 2003
the initial one just dedicated to CS was indeed on the end of the partitiom, but running at Ultra DMA 5 . However, I tried all my disks and partitions to no avail.
only C works great.
PC
Pierre_Courtejoie
Nov 27, 2003
Did you try to make copy tests (other disk to each partition) to check the speed of both partitions?
JK
Julian_K
Nov 27, 2003
yep. they aren’t slow at all.
LH
Lawrence_Hudetz
Nov 28, 2003
Ooops! 1 gig, 1 gig! ram!

What was I thinking!!

Fantasyland, I guess! 😉

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