I am going through a 300 old photos that were scanned to .jpg files and cropping/adjusting the photos to create a DVD slide show. When I first started, Lightroom locked up a couple times using the dust spot removal tool. The cursor was a closed hand and nothing responded. After killing the app a couple of times, It was working for about a hour, and then started having problems again. When I clicked on the spot removal tool, the cursor stayed as a closed hand. I quit and came back it. The spot removal again locked up the application. It seems to happen on larger spot removals. Trying to modify the large spot removals also causes Lightroom to hang up (last time was with a resize cursor).
I am running the 64 bit version on Windows 7 Professional, 6GB Ram, Quad-Core, no other programs running. My 300 photos and catalog (with ony these photos in it) are on on an Solid State Drive. I am using duel monitors with duel ATI Radeon HD 4600 1GB cards.
You will find comments on this, including mine, elsewhere in this forum. I have similar problems with various functions in LR3, including with the cloning tool. Freezes, slowness, etc. Tried many, many things to see if I could fix, which I won't repeat here. Things seemed to get better and I can sometimes work for relatively long periods of time, and then the problem returns for a bit, and then goes away again. I will say that LR2 would occassionally get a little quirky for me and become unresponsive, but I would just close and reopen and it would generally go away. LR3 has been, and sometimes still is, something else again: absolutely unusable at times.
yep .. we've all been leaving a trail of cookies for Adobe to follow .. but not much back from them yet.
I'm gradually getting used to the slowness, the incessant screen size changing when cropping that can become maddening when you're trying to line stuff up, and the thinking moments mid- "spot removal" drag.
If you recall, LR2.1 was pretty bad, performance-wise, until Adobe "did something" and pushed out an upgrade.
(you see they've done this before... its a familiar pattern from Adobe)
And we're all running absolute beasts - so I don't think it much matters whether we compare 4 vs 6 vs 8 cpus.
Maybe - I'm not a computer specialist and I don't even really know what precisely a memory leak is or does.
I observed exactly the behaviour that you describe - that LR gets slow, then "hangs", then recuperates and then it gets slow again. But in my observation this recuperation is independent of re-starting LR or not. LR recuperates also just by waiting (boy - that's an exercise in patience!)
My observation is also that memory demand is not particularly high when this happens. I have 4GB of RAM but LR seldom gets up to 2 GB.
But my CPU is working like crazy: during the "hanging" or "freezing" of LR the CPU (dual-core at 3 GB) is at 100%.
Thus is seems to me that it's not a memory problem but a problem of too much "number-crunching" when using local adjustments (cloning-healing tool; adjustment brush; gradient filter).
I have a hunch that local adjustments are very difficult for a non-pixel based software.
I am hardly a computer expert, but it doesn't seem to me as though the basic functions of the cloning, adjustment brush and gradient tools have changed from LR2. Yes, when they work in LR3 they do seem to work more smoothly and quickly, but the end result seems the same and these tools in LR2 seem to work quickly enough on a decently spec'd machine (not so well on, say, a G5 iMac though). Maybe a case of "if it ain't broke....?"
assuming we all remember as far back as 1 month ago to Lightroom 2.7, and ignoring the new stuff like lens correction, if the new version 3 fails to perform as reliably and quickly on the same computer the same functions of adjustment brush, spot removal, then It IS BROKEN - and no further need for discussion. It handled it before. It doesn't now. Therefore Q E D its a BUG!!!!! no further discussion necessary. it's as obvious as the nose on a face.
"assuming we all remember as far back as 1 month ago to Lightroom 2.7, and ignoring the new stuff like lens correction, if the new version 3 fails to perform as reliably and quickly on the same computer the same functions of adjustment brush, spot removal, then It IS BROKEN - and no further need for discussion. It handled it before. It doesn't now. Therefore Q E D its a BUG!!!!! no further discussion necessary. it's as obvious as the nose on a face."
Your assumption is incorrect insofar as the local adjustments were just as slow in LR 2.
This just echoes so much of what is being posted. LR3 seems not to be ready for prime time. I've had mail from Adobe that says that they're listening, but I don't hear anything about their plans to fix this. LR3 is sssslllllooooooowwwwww compared to 2.7. Someone suggested a "memory leak." I'm not enough of a tech to know what this means, but I do know that I have to reboot LR3 about every half hour to get it back up to speed.
There used to be a saying "do not by a car in the first year of its production" I thought Lightroom 3 had enough Beta time so I bought it. To say the least I am befuddled and hope as the year goes by this product becomes what was promised
I have a hunch that local adjustments are very difficult for a non-pixel based software.
Not if done right.
The interaction with "lens distortion correction" (turn that off if you can) is advanced but clearly something is wrong about the programming approach for local adjustments. There is no need for them to become increasingly slower the more you apply. It is everyone's guess as to why there is no fix.
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