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August 25, 2024
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Lightroom Classic running away with memory on Mac

  • August 25, 2024
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I have LR classic installed on an M1 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM. I hadn't used it for a couple of weeks and started again this week after getting a new camera body and lens. I saw that LR had been updated to 13.5.

I was using LR on Friday night and left it open overnight - not unusual for me. Next morning my Mac was unresponsive and the Force Close window was open with the message that my Mac was out of application memory. I had to force quit LR to get round the issue.

I used LR again to import 21 new files and did some basic editing (change the camera profile on all files with copy/paste). LR was then using 32GB of memory. In fact this happens if I just open LR and leave it without doing anything.

CPU usage varied between 50% and 130% with about 115 threads, so I suspect something is running in the background that is hogging resources.

 

Here's what I see this morning. This is on startup.

 

This is after 5 mins with no action on my part.

 

Has anyone else noticed this or has any suggestions as to how to address it?

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Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 25, 2024

Is syncing to the Adobe Cloud enabled? If yes, then try temporarily pausing see whether that helps.

LaphroaigAuthor
Participant
August 25, 2024

That took care of it, thanks. 

The question remains as to why it happened in the first place and if I have to keep sync paused.

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 25, 2024

Sync architecture was reworked for 13.3. Unfortunately, it caused a lot of performance issues. 13.4 and then 13.5 included some fixes for these. If you hadn't already installed 13.3, then you still need to allow the resync process to finish. Some users find that it takes a few hours and some a day or so. It seems to depend on what else you're doing.  Some have suggested keeping the sync paused while your working with LrC, then unpause to let it sync overnight. In theory, all should be fine in the morning and you can lease sync on.