On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is very welcome. I hadn't heard the upgrade price yet, so thanks > > for that info George. > > > > I should have tested the beta to see if it solves the memory leak > > issue I have with Lr. I'm going nuts lately having to shut down and > > restart it too often. After previewing a couple of hundred images, it > > has consumed all of the 6 Gigs on my Mac, and the machine goes into a > > paging frenzy. I'm trying to quickly get through 700 images and > > behaviour this doesn't help. > > > > Still, it's a magical tool, so it'll be well worth the upgrade. > > Lr4 is now upgrading my InProgress catalog ... that's about 79,000 > images so I expect it will take a little while yet before i see the > memory dynamics of using it. ;-) > > However, where do you have your catalog folder? What's your free space > like on the startup volume where Lr is located? I've not found Lr3 to > do a paging frenzy except when free space on the startup volume is too > tight ... I always keep 100-200 G free space on the startup volume. My > catalog folders are always on the startup volume, my image files are > on an external volume. > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com
Godfrey, my Catalog folder is on the internal startup drive. Free space on the startup drive is 132 Gig. My images are all on an external 2G FireWire drive. I believe I'm following all the performance recommendations. I've tried other arrangements and this seems to work best. AFAIK, the paging is occurring because I've run out of physical RAM and the OS is trying to make do with virtual. I watch the System Memory tab in the Activity Monitor frequently and I can see the free space shrink away. I also see Lr's Real Mem, Virtual Mem usage climb slowly into the stratosphere. Lr starts off using 470Meg of each, eventually reaching 3 Gig each after an hour or two of previewing, and a few dives into the Develop module. The only other app that's as bad as that (well besides Photoshop) is Safari. :-/ -- -bmw -- 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.
