Lightroom has no scratch file or memory controls. I usually start Lightroom and let it do whatever it does for a few minutes before using it (like just now ... I browse email while it does all of its maintenance and such, before I get to work in it). I don't see this stop and start behavior on rendering.
You might check the settings you've made for what kinds of previews it makes automatically and how long it keeps them. G On Oct 7, 2007, at 11:07 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Sounds like a low memory situation. Try increesing your swap file size > and Lightroom, (I think Lightroom uses a separate scratch file), > scratch > file size. > > Igor Roshchin wrote: >> Time to time I experience the problem that it takes extremely long >> time to render the image in Lightroom, i.e. I see the typical >> "JPEG-ish" >> squares, both in the fit-on-screen size and when zoomed-in. >> Then, if I adjust some parameters (e.g. sharpening), the picture >> appears normally, but then, if I pan it or zoom in/out, it again >> shows that rugged images (I guess it is the small JPEG preview stored >> in the RAW file). >> This can happen even on the files that were just recently imported, >> so that the full-size previews should be available. >> >> I did "relaunch and optimize". >> Sometimes it helps, sometime it doesn't. >> Usually it goes away after 2-10 minutes since the LR was started. >> Does anybody observe it? Any ideas how to deal with it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

