You're already doing everything I know and more. One other thing though,
I recently noticed that although I had installed 64-bit Photoshop, for
some reason I was still going to the 32 bit version. Once I "fixed"
that, it sped my computer up a whole lot.
On 1/22/2016 5:24 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Well, my ram is maxed out for this system, I have 4 7200 RPM SATA II
drives, a 6 core AMD processor. The actual software that occasionally
get's slow is the DXO Optics 8 Pro raw converter. I've got it's cache
on a separate cache disk from the system cache, (same is true for
Photoshop but that let's me spread it's cache over 4 disks, which I've
already done. Photoshop could be faster if I spent a whole lot more
money on hardware, but it's never been all that pokey on this machine,
in fact some computationally intensive operations that used to take
seemingly forever on my old machine take a few heartbeats now.
It looks like a faster GPU might help, the one I've got installed is
pretty ancient.
However when I did a simple check using the Task Manager, even though
the process was taking a long time, there were plenty of system
resources available. More than half of physical memory was available,
and none of the 6 cores use peaked at more than 3/4 and less than half
of system ram was in use. I don't think more ram is necessary, which is
good, more isn't possible.
GPU-Z shows that the load peaked at 27% and it's not even a particularly
powerful GPU.
It's possible that the drives are slowing things down, but based on
memory usage, I'm not even hitting the cache files, (theoretically anyway).
It's possible that DXO Optics Pro 8 is it's own issue.
On 1/22/2016 10:20 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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