Elliotte Rusty Harold
11-02-2012, 08:44 AM
I've noticed ever since upgrading from Lightroom 3 to 4, that is not noticeably slower on many operations. Lightroom was never fast but it now it can take multiple seconds on a top of the line mac Pro to bring up a crop rectangle or move a clonestamp circle. It is very painful to use.
With the activity monitor I can see that these operations are hitting disk. I.e. they are highly correlated with spikes in Data written/sec. This happens even though I have plenty of available RAM and 12 cores.
My catalog and the application itself are on an SSD but the photos themselves are on a regular hard drive. (My total library is approaching a terabyte, so it won't fit on even the largest SSDs.)
Any suggestions for speeding this up?
And for the software developers in the audience, any idea why Adobe is crippling Lightroom performance with synchronous disk writes like this?
With the activity monitor I can see that these operations are hitting disk. I.e. they are highly correlated with spikes in Data written/sec. This happens even though I have plenty of available RAM and 12 cores.
My catalog and the application itself are on an SSD but the photos themselves are on a regular hard drive. (My total library is approaching a terabyte, so it won't fit on even the largest SSDs.)
Any suggestions for speeding this up?
And for the software developers in the audience, any idea why Adobe is crippling Lightroom performance with synchronous disk writes like this?