P: Consumes all memory and then hangs

Good morning!

It is me again, with a brand new M2 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM. And, guess what: The same problem as with my old MacBook Air. This time it takes Lightroom some seconds longer to eat up all the memory...

Thanks for help in this ongoing struggle

Wolfgang

Hello,

I just wanted to join this thread. I have been struggling with my M1 Macbook Pro 16 inch + Lightroom Classic. I started my own topic, but not much help found there.

Basically my issue is similar - Lightroom starts normally, at first runs at okay speed, but after editing a few photos, browsing some folders in Develop module - the memory usage gets higher and higher. It usually starts from around 1.8 GB and rises until 12-14 GB at which point I start getting delays between photos changing, zooming in/out (constant beach ball icon). At this point even quitting Lightroom takes 30-40 seconds (beach ball spinning).  After restart - it's fine again and the process repeats. Is there any solution? I already wanted to upgrade my Machine to one with more memory (16 GB now)...

Here is my system info:

Lightroom Classic version: 11.5 [ 202208080927-8a575c91 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-PL
Operating system: Mac OS 12
Version: 12.6.0 [21G115]
Application architecture: arm64
Logical processor count: 10
Processor speed: NA
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 16 384,0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16 384,0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1 919,2 MB (11,7%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 417 406,4 MB
Memory cache size: 571,8MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 14.5 [ 1177 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 1787MB / 8191MB (21%)
Camera Raw real memory: 2783MB / 16384MB (16%)
Displays: 1) 3456x2234

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: Apple M1 Pro

Init State: 5
User Preference: 1

Another request for information in your inbox.

Hello, Rikk!

Log is attached...

Thanks

Wolfgang

Awesome that is an important test. Lots of people are experiencing extreme memory leaks on M1 hardware also not just with Lightroom apparently. This one is really extreme

Hello, Jao!

I did all that. I made a backup, installed fresh, installed only LR, same outcome!
Thanks

Wolfgang

Hello, Rikk!

I am away from my computer, I will do it next weekend!

THX

You have a LOT of third party utilities installed on that machine just looking at the video. Including ones that mess deeply with your operating system. I would first use a clean install of the operating system or disable all of these utilities and see if it still does this.

Request from engineering: 

"If the customer is still stuck maybe we could get a clue on what's using the memory from the following:

• Run activity monitor to find the PID (Process ID) of Adobe Lightroom
• Then in terminal type this command replacing PID with that number
• :/usr/bin/vmmap PID >LrVMdump.txt
• Then send us the LrVMdump.txt file it generated, you can type "open ." to show the folder where it was created in the Finder."

Hello, Ian!

Without display? Same. Start LrD, wait 15 seconds, stall.

I know 8GB is not really enough, but my working setup is as following:

1.) My main computer is a MPPro 16, 32GPU, 32GB RAM, which runs LR Classic, connected to the monitor above.

2.) The Air is my "travelling machine", which runs LrD, with no monitor (or my iPad as Sidecar-Monitor).

This setup was what sold me an the photografic plan, plus the ability to make first selections on the iPad.

HTH

Wolfgang