4 Replies Latest reply: Oct 3, 2014 12:26 PM by R Neil Haugen RSS

    RAM Reserved for Premiere

    Petrula Community Member

      Premiere Pro CC2014

      Win7 Pro 64-bit

       

      When you RAM reserve say 12 GB for Premiere and other Adobe Applications via (Preferences | Memory tab), when does it take effect?

       

      When you boot?

      Or only when you start Premiere?

       

      After you close Premiere and other Adobe Applications, is the 12 GB freed up for non-Adobe applications?

       

      Thanks in advance.

        • 1. Re: RAM Reserved for Premiere
          Peru Bob Community Member

          Petrula wrote:

           

          Premiere Pro CC2014

          Win7 Pro 64-bit

           

          When you RAM reserve say 12 GB for Premiere and other Adobe Applications via (Preferences | Memory tab), when does it take effect?

          Upon reboot.

           

           

           

          After you close Premiere and other Adobe Applications, is the 12 GB freed up for non-Adobe applications?

           

           

          It is supposed to be, but sometimes won't be available unless you kill Premiere Pro in Task Manager or reboot.

          • 2. Re: RAM Reserved for Premiere
            Petrula Community Member

            I am unclear about the answer.

             

            Does "upon reboot" mean that when I boot into Windows 7, Adobe via some Adobe service reserves 12 GB of physical memory?

            That would imply that the 12 GB of physical memory are always only available for Adobe Applications.

             

            Or does it mean that when I start Premiere, Adobe reserves 12 GB of physical memory.

             

            Upon closing Premiere, you indicate that the 12 GB of physical memory should free up, but often does not so you need to make sure to close Premiere via the Task Manager which would then free up the memory for non-Adobe applications.

             

            Please clarify.

             

            Is there any application which shows that Adobe is reserving part of physical memory?

             

            Thanks

            • 3. Re: Re: RAM Reserved for Premiere
              Peru Bob Community Member

              Petrula wrote:

               

              Does "upon reboot" mean that when I boot into Windows 7, Adobe via some Adobe service reserves 12 GB of physical memory?

              That would imply that the 12 GB of physical memory are always only available for Adobe Applications.

              Or does it mean that when I start Premiere, Adobe reserves 12 GB of physical memory.

              It doesn't reserve memory.  It uses up to the amount you allow.


              Upon closing Premiere, you indicate that the 12 GB of physical memory should free up, but often does not so you need to make sure to close Premiere via the Task Manager which would then free up the memory for non-Adobe applications.

              Yes, in my case.  Sometimes Premiere Pro will not release the memory after closing.

               

              Is there any application which shows that Adobe is reserving part of physical memory?

               

              Task Manager and Resource Monitor will both show the amount of memory that individual applications are using.

              • 4. Re: RAM Reserved for Premiere
                R Neil Haugen Community Member

                The RAM is only reserved while the Adobe apps are running. Sometimes it doesn't get released afterwards, but mostly it does, if maybe 30 seconds to two minutes after the close of the last Adobe video/graphics/stills-image app. On mine, I check the task manager to see if it's still open occasionally, but normally it closes down as expected.

                 

                Now, considering I don't have anything else that takes NEARLY the amount of RAM I've got (only 16Gb currently) let alone what's left after I "reserve" 12 Gb for Adobe ... I could easily tell it to take 14Gb for Adobe and not hurt anything else. Word processing doesn't require large amounts or RAM, and if it takes some of my raided SSD pair of "system" cache or a bit of the SSD cache disc, how am I going to notice it?

                 

                Neil