Lightroom using unlimited amount of ram when editing photos
- October 25, 2024
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App works on lightroom 6.5 and 7.0. anything newer and the program will use more and more ram until the system itself begins to page, and lead to remarkably slow operation and lightroom crashes.
Contacted support and they ran through all troubleshooting steps, getting onto senior team who are reviewing a memory dump file (26GB file, as i only have 32GB of ram the system i can't go higher). absolutely no progress.
This issue is present on a system running, an AMD Ryzen CPU and a Radeon GPU, also present on an Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU system. It happens on windows 10, it happens on windows 11, it happens with completely new drivers, and up to date software. it happens on a clean install of the OS and adobe creative cloud. (by clean, i mean clean OS installation, and using Creative cloud cleaner to remove all traces of adobe software on the machine.)
I have no plugins active and no external apps interacting with the application.
This issue persists if editing local files, and if editing cloud files. It happens whether the cloud backup is active or paused. It happens with the GPU acceleration turned on and turned off.
It is a bugged program, with many other cases of it being reported.
Adobe needs to focus on the important aspects of writing computer software, Getting it to run affectivly and efficiently.
I have photos attached to showcase this ram usage. To get the results, simply, load up Task manger, boot up lightroom. see it sit nice and static. Then select some photos, click enhance, then do the default settings to denoise them (this gives a photo one by one to edit, so produces repeatable and discrete changes to the system memory usage, making it clear when more is being used and why) then watch as the ram steps up slowly until you have none left.
