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Yeah... but then if you have a few layers here and there it soon escalates...
When I work on Photoshop files they are generally for the web and come from medium rez. digital pictures or DV-Cams. Now by the time I have jiggled with them, put a few layers on etc. etc. I have generally lost about 500MB of disk space to Swap Files.. Not to mention quite a large chunk of Ram gone.

I just checked now and I was using Photoshop yesterday for some 600 x 600 72dpi files, which had about 4 or five layers in them and yup I have about 1GB of Swap Files!

Photoshop is the only program that seems to do this!

The most annoying thing is you have to reboot your machine to clear this stuff out.

So I can quite believe that people working with a reasonable size file which is good enough quality to print could easilly use all of 2GB of memory if the machine would allow.

Photoshop, to me, is the ultimate example of how programs these days just abuse the hell out of the fact that we have huge amounts of memory available.