P: LR4 extremely slow web module gallery building

I was perhaps a bit to quick to use the term 'reluctantly', But, that being said, Adobe is a huge company and a product so important as LR should have been more thoroughly tested. We have gone through beta, rc1 and now rc2. What other surprises await us. Perhaps none hopefully.

Very happy to hear this will be fixed. Now if the LR team would turn their attention to the Edit Metadata Presets window, which sorely needs some lovin'. Besides needing to be width resizable and field expandable, in LR4-RC2, clicking in an active populated field now brings the cursor back to the top of the field. And that pesky Upload issue in the Web module, where stalled uploads fail consistently, and require the process to start again from scratch. I realize this isn't the forum for these issues, but at least I know someone from Adobe is reading it...

Not directly relevant to the specific problem but I agree with David Lingard above. I was a C++ software developer before I retired and I know about the pressures that can build up in such environments. Marketing is always pressing and time to properly test ones own work is never adequate. As soon as marketing were satisfied that the component worked it was time to move on to something new. Optimising performance and testing for error conditions were luxuries.QA were under similar pressures from managers to rush testing and these people had to have strong characters to be allowed to do their job properly. I never once completed a project to my own satisfaction and very often had to do emergency fire fighting after the product had shipped because of this.That is why it was important for us all in this forum to have reported the problem accurately and to recognise that the Web component is probably the least used part of LR but for those of us that have built their workflow around the web module, very important. Those contributing with benchmarks helped a lot I fee. After this apparenttly premature release I hope that Adobe will realise that reputation is very important, LR is not a toy and peoples livelihoods depend on tools like this, for me a hobbyist, these issues are an irritant but I recognise that many suffer much more than I.

"They listened, albeit somewhat reluctantly."

Somewhat reluctantly is a bit unfair. It was accepted by JT a month ago then there's investigation, implementation and testing. I was a software tester before retirement and know how long it should take but our work was safety-critical and errors were not acceptable.

My criticism of Adobe is that the 4.0 release was inadequately tested, but it's cheaper to get the customer to do the job (is that unfair?).

I too can report that what took 20 min ro4 19 images now takes less than 5 minutes in RC2. They listened, albeit somewhat reluctantly. But what counts is that the user community can make a difference.
Thanks Adobe LR Team

I started this thread so I am pleased to report that my system now takes about a quarter of the time to build web galleries so I also accept that the problem as specified has been resolved. Thanks to the developers for paying attention to it.

OK: LR 4.1RC2 in place. Simple HTML gallery of 189 Canon 5D mkII RAWs just took 14 minutes to create. Mac Pro 2 x 2.8 Quad Core, 10Gb RAM. Activity monitor showed RAM and CPU useage as per 3.6; other apps ran as normal during the build.

Looks like this one's fixed - thank you Becky/the LR Team. 🙂

Thanks for this Tony; missed Jeffrey's reply.

My tests show LR4.1RC2 with the same speed for Web Gallery Export as LR3.6.

Beat

Yeah, I get that part. I was hoping for more fun and enlightening detail. This was a real odd one to have gotten past you all, as well as the slider issue, so it's of heightened interest to know exactly what it was.