Illustrator and dual processor

[tvsdips]

i have a dual processor PC running on windows 2000,
Intel P4 with 1GB DDR RAM (512 + 512 dual channel)

i have adobe illustrations that are 20-30 MB. I open them to save as PDFs.
My illustrator always shows max 50% usage of the CPU and never crosses this barrier.

How do i use/configure Illustrator CS so that it uses the dual processor environment and uses the other 50% of the CPU resources.

regards
TVS

[G4pj]

This is a good question. If you set Illustrator to use all the system resources, you'll have trouble with applications that run in the background.

Perhaps you get an email about a fantastic Illustrator technique, and you open your browser to view it and follow along. If all the resources have been allowcated to AI, there's no room for browsers, word processors, other Adobe applications, etc.

It is a good idea, for both Mac and Win environments to not to set one application to use all the ram, it eats up all the system resources.

[GuyB]

Hi G4pj,

I'm not sure what you mean when you say :

«It is a good idea, for both Mac and Win environments to not to set one application to use all the ram, it eats up all the system resources.»

In OSX you don't have to allocate ram to applications, the system manages it by itself, doing it very intelligently, by the way, not like... the other thing there !:rolleyes: