P: LR4 extremely slow web module gallery building

The issue reported on this thread: LR4 extremely slow web module gallery building

He Becky,

What issue was fixed? Can you inform us regarding what the idenfied problem was? I don't see it listed in the fix list for the RC.

I sure wish Adobe would get it's act together and get this fixed. 4.1RC is no faster.

I just ran a test - Exporting these same images as small (25%) jpgs.
It's using all four processors - Activity meter shows processors at around 750%.
It's cranking out 10 images a minute.

As I noted in my earlier post - the activity monitor indicated that only one processor is being used. The process for making web galleries in Lightroom 4 is single threaded. I just tested Lightroom 3.6. The activity monitor shows processor usage at around 400%. That explains the 4x longer that it's taking Lightroom 4 to generate galleries.

There is no reason with today's powerful computers for it to take 8 hours to build a website of proofs. That's pitiful.

PLEASE FIX IT!

Rich Quindry

Take a look a bit further up this thread and you will see an Adobe agent Jeffrey Tranberry informing us that it be be resolved in the final release of 4.1. Version 4.1RC did not improve this issue but did fix a few other performance issues so worth installing this in the meantime in my opinion.

Have the same issues as others here - LR4 is unusable, as the web gallery build times are pants.

Does anyone one know if the 4.1 release has addressed this issue?

Given that so many folks have speed issues (and not just with the Web module), and that Adobe raised a ticket for this specific issue over a month ago, (agreeing that this was a know problem) I sincerely hope so.

Extremely slow with me too. The current web gallery of proofs that I'm building was started 51/2 hours ago and will need another hour or so to finish!

I'm working with Nikon D4 RAW images so I can't directly compare with 3.6, but things in 3.6 happened several times faster.

My activity monitor shows one processor fully engaged at around 105%, no other processes pulling over 1%.

Using 2012 process engine.

Running a MacPro with Quad 2.66 Ghz processors, 32 Gigs of memory and Snow Leopard 10.6.8

PLEASE FIX THIS! I don't understand why it hasn't been fixed already.

Rich Quindry

Slow Web Galleries
I just made a moderately sized web gallery in LR 4.1 with Canon 5DIII files. It was incredibly slow. I was not expecting it so I didn't time it from start to finish. There were a total of 86 images in the gallery. The time difference from the first of the gallery's large jpegs to the last is exactly 30 minutes!

So I decided to run some comparison tests.

First I exported the same images as jpegs. These jpegs were slightly larger than the web gallery jpegs. They processed in 7 minutes.

I made a web gallery again from the same images. The results were essentially the same (29 minutes). There is something strangely slow in this new lightroom when it comes to making web galleries.

In LR3, web galleries were much faster. I cannot compare directly as the 5d3 cannot be read by LR3. So I opened a Canon 5d2 job in LR4 and made a gallery from 86 images. Process 2010 took and process 2012 took 34 minutes (longer than 5d3 files!). The same web gallery in LR3, process 2010, took 8 minutes!!!

So here's a web gallery recap:
LR3.6 Canon 5d2 Process 2010 Export small jpegs 86 files- 7 minutes
LR3.6 Canon 5d2 Process 2010 Web Gallery from 86 files- 8 minutes
LR4.1RC Canon 5d2 Process 2010 Web Gallery from 86 files- 28 minutes
LR4.1RC Canon 5d2 Process 2012 Web Gallery from 86 files- 34 minutes
LR4.1RC Canon 5d3 Process 2012 Web Gallery from 86 files- 29 minutes
LR4.1RC Canon 5d3 Process 2012 Export small jpegs 86 files- 7 minutes

So regardless of my cameras, regardless of process version, LR 4.1RC is almost 4 times slower to export web galleries than LR3.6!!! Exporting the same jpegs in LR4.1RC and LR 3.6 takes only 7 minutes, so it's not the Camera Raw engine, it's something specific to web galleries. And also of interest, LR4.1RC took 5 minutes longer to export the gallery from 5d2 files than 5d3 files! Is there something in the 5d3 files that is more optimized for new software?

I am running mac OSX 10.6.8 on a MacPro

Just to add another tale of woe and frustration

My second MacPro here in the office (Quad 2.66 16G ram, SSD's) took on the task of making a web gallery from 400 images (a few corrections per image, plus a b/w conversion), we started at 12noon, and it is still going strong at 15:07 and its just over 2/3 the way through.

Just to re-iterate....Adobe, please use the PREVIEWS to make web galleries, they are full screen here which is more than enough for a client website (overkill in fact) they have all the adjustments I need (in that they will be identical to the high res export, otherwise whats the point of them?!) and LR has already generated these jpgs, DO NOT go back to the RAW files, there is no need.

As Jeff mentioned above, it's being addressed in the final 4.1 release. Let's hope that shows up soon.