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Software & Accessories / Lightroom 4 performance
« on: April 24, 2013, 06:41:34 AM »
(If a similar thread evaded my search, please point it out ad I will move this post)
Like so many others here, I am learning more and more about Lightroom as I grow as a photographer. I love the ability to both manage my vastly growing collection plus do most of the PP that I need on a weekly basis.
As I upgraded to bigger file sizes (Full raw from 5Dmk3) as well as started using more advanced (and possibly much heavier) PP in Lightroom I am however experiencing some MASSIVE performance issues.
Granted, Lr was never superfast, but I never took the endless Lr complaints seriously until recently. Sometimes I will wait through a 10sec "lag-spike" not sure if Lr is actually working or just taking a deserved break. The reason that I am writing this lengthy post is that I a very curious to find out if this is a Lr issue or if something is off with my system.
A week ago, someone (my new nemesis it would appear) sat on my just month old Thinkpad W530 and whereas no obvious damage happened I can't help but worry. During the last week, I have seen the aforementioned 10sec spikes for the first time, but I have also been playing with some HEAVY PP (spamming multiple dense presets, experimenting with artistic ideas)
Being a philosophy major, I am always cautious to mistake causality with coincidence and seeing as the lag-spikes are irregular, for now, I don't have a problem that can be replicated, should I choose to send in my laptop for good measure.
So I guess I am interested to hear what kind of performance issues you guys might have had with Lr on a reasonable fast machine and how you solved them.
Also, I was wondering if some Lr-based benchmark exists (similar to premiere pro, where some users have created a benchmark-project that you can download and time to compare your system speed to others)
My machine is an i7 3720QM 2.6 - 32GB DDR3 - 2x 256GB SATA6 SSD - quadro K2000M 2GB Running win pro x64 and Lr 4.4.
I am using the built-in x-rite color calibrator
I have read that one might see a performance increase from making a new catalog per project. My current catalog is around 40.000 pics (around half offline) How big a factor is this?
I am using custom camera calibration (using the VSCO film-ones quite often) plus pulling many if not all sliders (learning by doing) Could this in itself be enough to cause the spikes? (I use spot tools VERY rarely, but I crop alot)
My windows is pretty well kept the pc is rather new and I tune it once in a while (sfc /scannow etc)
When I export/render, the cpu is very busy, but when I get the spikes and unresponsive behavior in Lr, the cpu is often fairly idle.. so what gives?
Is there something I am missing?
edit: seeing as I have 2 separate SSD's in my machine, any advice on optimal placement of folders? (ACR cache (set to 20GB), catalog, preview files (I always generate 1:1) and actual photos (I keep my projects on internal SSD while working on them)
Edit2: Tried replacing my preference-file as suggested in other forums - no change.
Disabling the "detail" pane however, seems to have an enormous effect on performance. Does anyone know of a way to disable a pane globally ?
(In the future I will deal with sharpness and noise just before exporting, but for all my pics that already have these changes, this of course is not an option)
Like so many others here, I am learning more and more about Lightroom as I grow as a photographer. I love the ability to both manage my vastly growing collection plus do most of the PP that I need on a weekly basis.
As I upgraded to bigger file sizes (Full raw from 5Dmk3) as well as started using more advanced (and possibly much heavier) PP in Lightroom I am however experiencing some MASSIVE performance issues.
Granted, Lr was never superfast, but I never took the endless Lr complaints seriously until recently. Sometimes I will wait through a 10sec "lag-spike" not sure if Lr is actually working or just taking a deserved break. The reason that I am writing this lengthy post is that I a very curious to find out if this is a Lr issue or if something is off with my system.
A week ago, someone (my new nemesis it would appear) sat on my just month old Thinkpad W530 and whereas no obvious damage happened I can't help but worry. During the last week, I have seen the aforementioned 10sec spikes for the first time, but I have also been playing with some HEAVY PP (spamming multiple dense presets, experimenting with artistic ideas)
Being a philosophy major, I am always cautious to mistake causality with coincidence and seeing as the lag-spikes are irregular, for now, I don't have a problem that can be replicated, should I choose to send in my laptop for good measure.
So I guess I am interested to hear what kind of performance issues you guys might have had with Lr on a reasonable fast machine and how you solved them.
Also, I was wondering if some Lr-based benchmark exists (similar to premiere pro, where some users have created a benchmark-project that you can download and time to compare your system speed to others)
My machine is an i7 3720QM 2.6 - 32GB DDR3 - 2x 256GB SATA6 SSD - quadro K2000M 2GB Running win pro x64 and Lr 4.4.
I am using the built-in x-rite color calibrator
I have read that one might see a performance increase from making a new catalog per project. My current catalog is around 40.000 pics (around half offline) How big a factor is this?
I am using custom camera calibration (using the VSCO film-ones quite often) plus pulling many if not all sliders (learning by doing) Could this in itself be enough to cause the spikes? (I use spot tools VERY rarely, but I crop alot)
My windows is pretty well kept the pc is rather new and I tune it once in a while (sfc /scannow etc)
When I export/render, the cpu is very busy, but when I get the spikes and unresponsive behavior in Lr, the cpu is often fairly idle.. so what gives?
Is there something I am missing?
edit: seeing as I have 2 separate SSD's in my machine, any advice on optimal placement of folders? (ACR cache (set to 20GB), catalog, preview files (I always generate 1:1) and actual photos (I keep my projects on internal SSD while working on them)
Edit2: Tried replacing my preference-file as suggested in other forums - no change.
Disabling the "detail" pane however, seems to have an enormous effect on performance. Does anyone know of a way to disable a pane globally ?
(In the future I will deal with sharpness and noise just before exporting, but for all my pics that already have these changes, this of course is not an option)
