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paulp20734806
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September 29, 2023
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Lightroom and Mac M1 RAM LEAKS - eating hundrets GB of RAM

  • September 29, 2023
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Hi is this a known bug that Lightroom eats all the memory that M1 Mac has and then swaps it all the time? It can consume hundreds GB of RAM when editing photos. Is this fixable other than switching of GPU in Lightroom preferences? (the app is then very slow ...)

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    Jeff_Warner
    Known Participant
    October 31, 2023

    M1 Studio with 128GB ram here, and Lightroom will eat up 95+GB and then stall. It's simply horrendous that one buys memory and ends up no better off than the LR-recommended 'minimum' amount.

      J
      Community Expert
      Jao vdLCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 30, 2023

      This is not normal behavior. Do you have any other software installed on this computer - especially things like antivirus, system cleanup apps, etc.? They are notorious for causing problems like this. 

      paulp20734806
      paulp20734806Author
      Participant
      September 30, 2023

      No i dont. It is happening while using Lightroom Classic with switched GPU acceleration. Unfortunately without GPU on it is slow and laggy 😞  but RAM is not eaten in 100% and even more because it constantly swapping 

      paulp20734806
      paulp20734806Author
      Participant
      October 1, 2023

      I have Mac Studio M1 Max  32GB RAM and 1 TB SSD (400GB left) Latest Ventura updates, no Sonoma yet as it have terrible reviews and cant risk unstable system. I edit in Davinci Resolve 4k raw video files without any problems and RAM is used in about 20-24GB  Only problem i have is with lightroom and Photoshop. I have not this problems on intel macbook from 2014 with 16gb ram.


      and, yes lightroom is fast and usable when swapping ram, but i read how bad it is for SSD. I dont want to die SSD in 2 years Mac as it is not swappable 🙂 2,5k$ will go to trash

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