Don't bank too heavily on GPU operations speeding anything up, it's very hit and miss and can end up increasing processing time with certain GPU application combinations.
On 23 January 2016 at 09:46, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
