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« on: June 13, 2006, 07:18:41 pm »

This is my first try at LightRoom. Is it me or do others find Beta 3 so slow that it's almost unusable?

I imported, by ref, approx 1500 5D CR2 RAW's. On the Develop tab I find making any change takse a long time e.g. choosing a different white balance setting from the drop down - approx 4 seconds. My machine is a G5 Dual 2.0 with 4GB RAM.
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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2006, 07:54:02 pm »

It can take some time for LR to build the cache which can cause slowdowns if you try to use it at the same time. Look at the top right and make sure there is no processes occurring while you work.
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2006, 07:56:24 pm »

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It can take some time for LR to build the cache which can cause slowdowns if you try to use it at the same time. Look at the top right and make sure there is no processes occurring while you work.
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Hi Daniel,

Yes, I checked that. After importing I closed and restarted LightRoom - no other processes were happening when I started exploring the Develop tab.
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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 04:26:46 am »

Beta 3 seems a world faster than 2 on my Macbook Pro - I get the impressions that LR is fairly hardware intensive at the moment and Jeff's article suggests there won't be a massive improvement until v1 is out...

I just changed the WB on a random file shot with an olympus e1 - took less than a second.  I've got a MBP with 2.16 ghz and only 1 gig RAM. I know the file size is smaller but surely not that much?!

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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2006, 05:35:39 am »

I just tried on a PowerMac G5 dual (Mac OS X 10.4.6) and LR beta 3 doesn't seem any slower than beta 2. I've checked how long white balance takes (1D2 and 5D files) and the change is reflected on screen immediately (well, about 1 second) although the "Working..." alert stays for about 3 seconds.
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2006, 08:43:04 pm »

Beta 3 is also MUCH slower than Beta 2 for me as well.  (Particularly in the Develop module).  Also, I don't like the updated UI.  (I do appreciate the added functionality, though)


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I just tried on a PowerMac G5 dual (Mac OS X 10.4.6) and LR beta 3 doesn't seem any slower than beta 2. I've checked how long white balance takes (1D2 and 5D files) and the change is reflected on screen immediately (well, about 1 second) although the "Working..." alert stays for about 3 seconds.
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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2006, 05:58:25 am »

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Beta 3 is also MUCH slower than Beta 2 for me as well.  (Particularly in the Develop module).  Also, I don't like the updated UI.  (I do appreciate the added functionality, though)
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I'll just add that I didn't check the export function (RAW to Tiff for example) to see if it's slower or not. Other than that, I don't find it slower than Beta 2.
One thing that might worth noting is that CPU usage stays quite high for 3-6 seconds after having changed exposure or white balance (or any other setting) in the Develop tab.
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« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2006, 09:14:37 am »

As I edit the video for LR Beta 3 Tutorial, I hear Mark Hamburg and George Jardine saying that the optimization of LR code for speed is just about the last thing the developing team does. My guess is that real speed improvements will not be realized until 1.0 ships. The reason simply is that it makes little sense to optimize for speed when the basic code is still being written/revised.

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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2006, 10:07:01 am »

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True indeed (my experience with doing beta on Photoshop over the years as well). The very last build is often much faster since they bugs found have all be squashed and now becomes the time for optimization.

That said, I find b3 slower but then I'm adding a lot more images to it. It also seems that when it's "doing something" the rest of the computer bogs down and I get a lot of SBBD's (Spinning Beach Ball of Death).
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« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2006, 03:09:30 pm »

For me (PB 1.6, gig of ram) Beta 3 is too slow to use most of the time.  It takes about 5 or 6 trys for it to launch without freezing and then is painfully slow.  A big step backwards.
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2006, 11:38:34 am »

They might not even be compiling it with the optimizer turned on, hell it might even have the debug symbols in it.

However on my machine (G4) it is simply too slow to be useful.  Unless there is a trial period for the final version I simply won't be able to spend the money they are asking to "test" it.  

Is it much faster if you let it build/maintain the library itself?   Since I was just testing it out I told it to reference my files that were already on my hard drive.  It found 16,000 files in my pictures directory, most of which are 10D images with the newer ones being 5D images.

It took 27 hours for the import to complete.  After all the processes are done it is still so slow as to be useless.  Even to click on a thumbnail and view it in the loupe it seems like it takes 10+ seconds.

I have a license for Photo Mechanic, and it's so ridiculously fast on my modest Mac compared to anything else.   It's faster for me to just use Photo Mechanic and launch Photoshop & DPP for tasks then anything else I've tried so far.
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« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2006, 11:01:20 am »

Hi all,

yes I can notice that LR B3 really isn´t very fast. When I was importing
a big HDD´s archive (about 9000 pics) its VERY slow and in my opinion
doesn´t uses my computer´s resources very well. I´ve got a Pmac Dual 2GHZ
with 6 Gigs of RAM and with the Activity monitor on processor levels are quite
low all the time (when updating databases).

I hope the engineers will put in more adjusting for use with big processor load
tasks, so like "use all what is left" "background" "only when computer is idle".

Just a hint!

otherwise a great program!!

best,

Andreas.
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2006, 12:37:26 am »

I have Beta tested for over 20 years and trust me, stability is the foundation of any software. My dualcore 3.2ghz handles this program well, as to tasks but my 1.6ghz laptop does not do so well.

On another machine, I tried the beta MS Vista... again slow but stable. May be a sign of things to come seeing that my son-in-law at HP here in Houston says that there is resrearch machines now using dual-quad core processors.

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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2006, 10:54:15 am »

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On another machine, I tried the beta MS Vista... again slow but stable. May be a sign of things to come seeing that my son-in-law at HP here in Houston says that there is resrearch machines now using dual-quad core processors.

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That has been evident in the computer industry for a couple years now. Silicon can only advance so far and we are at the limits of what it can handle. So until new materials can replace it, multi-core CPUs (as well as more advanced architectures) are a new means of adding processing power.
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2006, 04:27:56 pm »

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That has been evident in the computer industry for a couple years now. Silicon can only advance so far and we are at the limits of what it can handle. So until new materials can replace it, multi-core CPUs (as well as more advanced architectures) are a new means of adding processing power.
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 LOL, Lightroom is slow cause our systems our slow... that's all. Time to upgrade...again :-) yeay
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« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2006, 03:10:00 pm »

My version of Lightroom has also become terribly slow .  When I try to walkthru images in Library it seems to take forever to bring each image into focus.   The spinning dial indicates that another operation involving the thumbnails is in process.  Initially I started with importing everything into Lightroom itself...now I pull the images into a folder on the desktop and then reference them in place.  This avoids the have two sets of images on the HD .  I expect that we have a relational database performance issue..as the number of images undermanagement increases performance degrades.   Has anybody tried to address this when establishing their indexing scheme / their workflow.  
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« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2006, 04:24:48 pm »

I tried to use this program for the first time yesterday. Confession: my computer is a four-year old Dell 8200 using a Pentium 4 processor operating at 2.3 Ghz with Windows XP. (Yes I know, it's time to up-grade!) I've bench-tested this computer for PSCS2 performance and it is absolutely par for the course in its class. It handles PSCS2 and the usual essential plug-ins (PK Sharpener, Noise Ninja) OK for its class - not a speed demon, but tolerable and stable. So far the only programs I've used that occasionally cause it to hang are Adobe Bridge and Lightroom for Windows - Lightroom more so than Bridge. It takes forever to do anything in Lightroom on this computer (even slower than Bridge), so until I up-grade the computer, I shall not be using Lightroom. I'm not blaming Lightroom, just observing something a four-year gap between hardware and software really reveals: that whether optimized or not, new generations of software will severly challenge older generations of hardware, and an after-thought: perhaps the hardware need not be as relatively "old" as mine for these issues to begin to appear.
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« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2006, 05:24:42 pm »

Quote from: MarkDS,Aug 8 2006, 03:24 PM
I tried to use this program for the first time yesterday. Confession: my computer is a four-year old Dell 8200 using a Pentium 4 processor operating at 2.3 Ghz with Windows XP. (Yes I know, it's time to up-grade!) I've bench-tested t****snipped ****

LightRoom, IMO, just is not ready to stand alone as the sole image processor. THERE IS a lot I like, much more than I dislike, but it of itself is not ready for primetime. But I will own it when it is released because it is better the a lot of RAW convertors out there

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« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2006, 10:29:00 pm »

I downloaded and installed the Beta on a PC today. I don't care which RAW converter I use as long as it does a good job of conversion. That being said, I was using RAWshooter premium and it runs many times faster on my machine that the Lightroom BETA. If it doesn't run as fast or faster (than RAWshooter) when version 1.0 is released I won't be a user. Everything in the Lightroom BETA is slow.

We'll have to wait and see once 1.0 is released (I assume with a 30-day trial). I am certainly not going to buy a new machine to do what my current machines are doing just fine already.
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« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2006, 12:09:30 am »

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As I edit the video for LR Beta 3 Tutorial, I hear Mark Hamburg and George Jardine saying that the optimization of LR code for speed is just about the last thing the developing team does. My guess is that real speed improvements will not be realized until 1.0 ships. The reason simply is that it makes little sense to optimize for speed when the basic code is still being written/revised.

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Chris this makes alot of sense, and won't matter for people with super up-to-date, fast computers, but for the rest of us, the whole idea of releasing the Beta versions is lost on us because it is so painful to use that it is better to skip the experience - which deprives Adobe (at least from those of us with "slow" machines) of the feedback they wanted by releasing it in this form. Anyhow, so be it, they'll probably get enough feedback from those who can use it efficiently, and the rest of us will wait till we either have better computers or they have optimized the program.
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