🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi! A friend of mine has ImageReady 7.0 installed (I presume with PhotoShop 7) and she's been complaining about an image that has several layers (more than 10, I believe) taking FOR EVER to be saved optimized. In fact, ImageReady appeared to stop responding to the system during the save process.

When I took a look at her machine, I discovered ImageReady used approx 700MB of RAM before I killed it. The machine had 512MB installed and running the task manager while ImageReady was saving allowed me to monitor the memory use. The memory use started at about 300MB after ImageReady was loaded (no image file loaded) and during the optimized save process, memory use crawled up to about 1GB (300MB before the process plus another 700MB during the process). Then, I stopped the process since it was obvious ImageReady wanted WAY more RAM than she had installed.

So, I added 1GB of RAM to her machine, giving her a total of 1.5GB. Performing the same optimized save process results in the same amount of RAM being used (obviously) but the process still took longer than she's used to (not quite sure what that means myself) and the amount of RAM being used still concerns me. When ImageReady completes the optimized save process, RAM use goes back down to the 400MB range.

Is it normal for ImageReady to consume RAM like that when saving things optimized? Sorry for the novice question but I've never used ImageReady before and I'm wanting to help her out. :)

Thanks!

Peace...