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Adobe not taking advantage of all my RAM
This really isn’t a huge problem but more of a curiosity. I upgraded my RAM to 32GB recently and when I do a RAM preview in AE or encode through PP I never seem to use more than 16-18GB of my ram. My quad-core i7 gets maxed out for the most part but not my RAM. I upgraded the RAM to do more of the heavy lifting but I’m not seeing much of a difference than when I had 16GB RAM.
Is my next step to upgrade my MOBO and CPU to see major performance gains? I was hoping to see a nice improvement with the RAM upgrade.
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How are you set up in Memory preferences? How much RAM is reserved for other applications?
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
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I have it set to Performance and all but 2 GB of RAM allocated to Premiere and After Effects.
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[Andy Carrasco] “I upgraded my RAM to 32GB recently and when I do a RAM preview in AE or encode through PP I never seem to use more than 16-18GB of my ram. My quad-core i7 gets maxed out for the most part but not my RAM.”
If your CPU is running at full tilt, then that is the bottleneck that will limit performance. Adding more RAM will not improve performance because the CPUs are already running at their upper limit.
Your goal is the fastest render, not the highest use of resources. If the CPUs are already maximized, then there’s nothing more for the additional RAM to contribute.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Strange, I am having the opposite problem here: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/935395
My computer is using far too much RAM making my computer unusable while encoding. I wonder if there is a happy medium that can be found.I hope you can find a solution, although like Walter says, if your CPU is maxed out, adding RAM as a resource may not be to any advantage.
-Matt
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