With LightRoom the CameraRAW cache size defaults to about 1GB. It runs
a lot quicker if you bump that up to 20GB.
-p
On 1/22/2016 9:20 AM, John wrote:
If it's Photoshop, the two things I found worked for me to speed it up
are maxing out the RAM and adding a dedicated drive for the scratch disk
(I had a spare disk left over from replacing the drives in my laptop).
On 1/21/2016 3:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
P.J. Alling wrote:
My current desktop was bought with the idea that it was easily
overclocked. I wasn't planning to do any serious overclocking, but if I
needed a little extra speed, it was there. Well a few operations were
taking more time than seemed reasonable so after making sure this
machine wasn't infected with some type of Virus I decided what the hell,
might as well see what it could do. So having installed the "easy",
don't know why I used quotes it actually is easy, to use software. I set
it all up, and noticed no change what so ever. All the various
statistics say the machine should be faster, but it just doesn't seem
that way. Bus speed, Memory, Processor speed all increased by just under
20%, but none of the things I was interested in speeding up happens any
faster. Sheesh.
System optimization is often grossly misunderstood, even by programmers.
There are special tools that (wise) programmers can use to find out
where the performance bottlenecks are. But, since you don't have access
to the source code, we can take a higher level approach at the problem.
1) What hardware, OS and software are you running when you have this
problem? What sort of hard drives do you have?
2) Which specific operations are taking a lot more time? If you get the
spinny "wait while I think about it" wheel, when you are opening files,
it probably isn't your processor that's slowing you down.
3) Often times running low on certain system resources can make a huge
difference in performance, when the system can no longer use quick, easy
to access storage (memory) to store data when it changes tasks, but has
to store it off to much slower (spinny hard drives) secondary or
tertiary storage. This is why SSDs can make a huge difference in
performance.
4) If you're doing something that takes advantage of your GPU for
processing, upgrading your video card could make a bigger difference
than upgrading your processor.
It's like using a cheap kit lens on a high end body. If the sensor is
outresolving the lens, more megapixels aren't going to make your
pictures any sharper. Or for that matter, supercharging the motor in
your car when you're running on skinny bias ply tires. It doesn't matter
how much horsepower you have if you can't get it to the ground.
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