On 3/7/2012 8:41 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Bruce Walker<[email protected]> wrote:
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. :-/
I'll agree that Photoshop and Safari rank for my top memory hogs too. !
I see similar behavior in terms of LR taking more and RAM to operate
as it works, up to about the 3-4G level, but then no more. The
Activity Monitor might be 50% blue at that point with very little to
no green left (on a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo machine with 8G RAM). The system
is obviously paging.
My iMac is maxed out at 4GB of RAM. Lightroom usually works OK in it.
I'm doing a backup of my "everything" catalog right now, and lightroom
has sucked in 3.4GB of RAM, and the system is thrashing pretty hard.
It just seems wrong that a machine with the specs of the 24" iMac can,
at times, be so woefully underpowered.
There's no way I could afford the full desktop, plus monitors, but
maybe, if I could line up someone to buy my four year old iMac, I could
pretend that I could afford a refurbished newer one.
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