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September 22, 2016

P: Slow performance on Xeon CPUs

  • September 22, 2016
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I noticed that LR clone and brush tool on my XEON E5-1650 0 3.20GHz (Attention: E5-1650 0 and not E5-1650 v4) can not stress my CPU and after x minutes of working LR slow down, until I have to restart it.

Please see the full diskussion with the problem here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2210245 (test with different Lightroom versions, confrontation with a weak laptop, that works fine, tests wit other graphic grafic card, test with other bios settings etc. No results. Only restart LR or minor display resolution helps.)

Can anyone with an XEON E5-1650 0 3.2Ghz confirm this?

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234 replies

Participating Frequently
March 20, 2017
My system is fully optimized. SSD NVMe, SSD normal, each project with a new catalogue, Win 10x64, 32 GiB DDR4-3000, LR CC 2015.9 and an Intel 6900k @ 4 GHz (8 real cores, 1100$-CPU).
Right now i'm editing a wedding. It is soooo slow and while Export you barely can do anything. Maybe two pictures can be edited then in one minute. This is not professionell.

Here comes a possible solution.
I'm always doing SmartPreviews sind 2015.6 (or so). And additionally sometimes 1:1-Previews.
I deleted all the 1:1-Previews, rendered the SmartPreviews again and... editing is fun again. OK, somewhat fun...
Let's see whats happening while exporting...

Seems that LR has problems when Smart- AND 1:1-Previews do exist.

Can you confirm this?
Participating Frequently
March 18, 2017
Same issues, xeon quad core, 16gb ram, ssd with plenty of space, x280 r9 gpu. 
Very slow to view 1:1s, regardless of smart preview settings, to switch between images, and refresh after making more than a few brush adjustments. Issues present for all of ver 6. Have updated to the latest via CC when available. Problem persists. Looking to switch to Capture One if not fixed by the time Sony release their A7rII replacement (currently shooting Pentax).
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March 17, 2017
Rob, I'm confused - what's the "please add your vote on the link you have provided"? I'm not following where I'm supposed to vote on something, but do see your comment and their response on their FB page.
Assaf Frank
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March 16, 2017
done
robv69577667
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March 16, 2017
I put this on there Facebook:

Hi, Lightroom has a lot of problems on multi core computers. Please do something about it or let us users know that you are working on the problem.

With a link to this thread

They answered me with the Following:

Hi Rob, I would request you to please add your vote on the link you have provided, if already done we appreciate it.
I will surely pass the feedback to the team asking about the progress made on it. ~Tanuj

So lets all vote and post something on there Facebook >> https://www.facebook.com/Adobe/?rc=p
Known Participant
March 16, 2017
No one is gonna answer.  It's not on their radar yet, but if they get enough emails they might pick the story up and run with it. I'll email them again today.
robv69577667
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March 16, 2017
Scott Gold,

I wrote to fstoppers 2 months ago. Was expecting some kind of answer, but untill now no answer at all. 
Participant
March 15, 2017
Welcome to the club! My advice is to write to Fstoppers.com and hopefully they'll pick up the story. Write them a quick message summarizing the problem and how Adobe is not addressing it. https://fstoppers.com/contact
That is not really the welcome I was wanting...but thanks! haha Submitted my request for fstoppers to research/write an article about Lightroom's lackluster performance on higher-end systems!
Known Participant
March 15, 2017
If we all just made some noise rather than sitting around hoping for someone to fix our problem we'd have this problem addressed and solved much sooner. Please, reach out to FStoppers.com and let's get some eyes on this issue.  https://fstoppers.com/contact
Known Participant
March 15, 2017
I've got a 8/16 core 6900K and a GTX1080 GPU and LR is as slow as molasses. I'm currently importing around 4,500 files and the convert to DNG and build 1:1 previews takes twice as long on my machine as it does on a slower spec'd late 2013 MacBook Pro with 4 cores. This is unacceptable.