Lightroom/Time processing question?

Hello. I'm using Lightroom (love it like so many others have expressed) but

wonder if it's taking more time than other's have experianced

importing/exporting images. Example: I'm exporting (400) images right now (from

my 5d (12.8 / 300dpi) to jpegs into a new folder and i'm on my 100th jpeg in 2

hours...this seems way too long? Could someone tell me if this seems to long

and any suggestions? I'm on a PC thanks... ;)

Meg,

 

How much memory do you have? I have a PC running XP pro and with 1GB of RAM, Lightroom was very slow. I bumped it up to 2GB and it is running much better now.

 

The other thing is when was the last time you defragmented your disk? Lightroom is adding info to a database and if Windows has to keep finding a free spot on the disk, it will be slower.

 

Paul

i have 177 GB of memorey...98.8 used / 78.9 free / isn't ram not the same thing? i have 2 gig of ram...

Also, some processors don't run Lightroom well. All the newer processors have the proper instruction sets, but a some of the 1-2 year old computers do not. I have a machine with an AMD Sempron processor, that just bogs down trying to run Lightroom. I had to switch back to Rawshooter.

2 gigs RAM is the important spec. Still, what do you have for a processor/CPU?

let me check - it may take 5 hours... ;) lol...

ok here is what i have (hummmm - looks like i have the same processor you do jim - i'm scared - does this mean i'm screwed?)...<div></div>

omg - should i not of posted that....will i have hackers now w/ my system id listed? maybe i should have a moderator take it down?

Meg, you will not risk any "hackers" by posting that. And an Athlon 64 @2.2ghz should run lightroom just fine... I'm running a lesser processor overclocked such that it should run about like yours, with otherwise similar specs. I'm tempted to think your hard disk is your bottleneck. Defrag it, and if that doesn't work, consider getting more storage and moving your lightroom library to its own drive. Western Digital Raptor drives are a GODSEND when it comes to storage bottlenecks. Hope this helps.

I've a Mac G5 dual processor with 5 gigs of RAM. Lightroom loads like a snail compared to

Bridge. That's okay for now since I go do something else while it's working. I can see LR

pretty much taking over from ACR in the future as I figure out how to work more effeciently

in it. After all, been using Bridge for a long time compared to LR. It'll just takes time to get it

all down. I have a tutorial on it today. Hopefully by this week-end I can start the switch over.

One other problem many folks are having is the red "Out of Memory" that displays upside-down in the loupe window when you've maxed out the system. I researched it a bit on the Adobe forums, and found many references in relation to giving the LR database an "exemption" from real-time virus scanning. If your anti-virus software sifts each new file opened (word docs, jpgs, spreadsheets, whatever), then it's almost constantly scanning when you're using LR. Set a rule in your AV software to ignore the database (often housed in MyDocs/Pictures/Lightroom/) and you reclaim some memory/speed. I made the change a few days ago and haven't had the OOM message displayed since (and had been getting it once a day).

 

Would this affect Meg's exporting? Likely not, but I figured I'd contribute it anyway.

 

I welcome any other thoughts-

-mcs

Meg, it sounds like you are DL'ing directly from the camera and not from a card-reader. If so, pick up a fairly inexpensive card reader, attach it to a USB2 port and you'll notice a MAJOR difference

I don't think so, Bob --- I believe she's talking about export, not import.... but you're right - a *huge* difference downloading from a USB 2.0 card reader, rather than a camera.

 

Anyone know why they don't just "put" USB 2.0 on-board in cameras? Is there something fundamental about the 'stuff' in a card reader that's incompatible with a camera? Not enough....space?

 

Anyhow, I think Meg's exporting....... Meg?

 

-mcs

Meg,

 

Do you have your Lr library and the folder you are exporting to o nthe same hard drive? And are they also on the same hard drive as your application ? That could be the bottleneck.

 

Also RAM is not the same thing as hard drive storage.

thank you for helping w/ this issue. a couple of things:

 

CPU performance moniter shows CPU usage of 80-100% even when the system is idle, i.e., no applications are running. There are about 45 processes active. What is stealing cpu cycles??

How's your virus checker? Is it up to date? When was the last time you ran a current spyware checker through it?

What is the name of the process that is clocking? You can go to the processes tab in task manager and click on the CPU column to sort the high CPU percentages to the top.

thanks so much for all the responses and ideas for solving this issue everyone...

sorry i didn't add the element of the CPU issue before - i have my father who is a computer guru helping w/ many issues right now and i had him take a look at this post so i apoligize for not adding the issue earlier...here's what he has to add about the 2 posts above...

 

"We have swept the system using McAfee, Spysweeper, PC-Tune, Spybot, Webroot and the system is supposedly clean. Processes in Task Manager shows System Idle using 94-99%cpu with occasional jumps of 8% from a process named Lsass.exe. CPU Usage still remains at 70, 80, 100%"

 

does anyone have any ideas as to how we can find what's using all the CPUS???? thanks so much.

I am not the best PC pro here but this what I would do. I have lightroom running on AMD dual processor FX 64 5400. It runs fine the upload a bit slower than importing the files from the card to the PC.

1. I would run msconfig, go to startup and uncheck all unnecessary programs that running in the backgrounds.

2. Click on services tap and check hide Microsoft services. And uncheck all unnecessary programs that running in the backgrounds. I normally uncheck everything here but be sure to click hide Microsoft services first.

3. Clean all your internet file

4. Defrag your drive.

 

I usually disable my Internet connection, firewall, and antivirus when I am working. Some might say it is not necessary but it works fro me and I see the difference..

I've come to the conclusion that Lightroom stumbles on the offload regardless of whether it is from the camera or from a card reader. I've taken to doing the offload with ACDSee V8.1 for speed and then importing the photos from the HD.

 

I hope the new Lightroom V1.1 that is due out soon will provide some serious improvements, because there is no way I can get rid of ACDSee just yet!

I use a PC w/2gb memory. My process is 1) put card in USB2 cardreader. 2)Use Explorer to drag files from card to (usually new) folder I want to store them in on the PC. This goes very fast. 3)Then as mentioned above, I import them into LR using the + symbol next to Folders. This process is somewhat slow-maybe 2 sec per image +/-. I'm usually importing RAW files that are about 10mb. I find exporting the adjusted files is much slower.

Make a GREAT day!

Jim