Lightroom Classic eats my Ram on my MacBook Pro M2. Lightroom Classic running slow

[markk53033177]

Lightroom Classic using all my Ram,cannot understand why its using 15gb of 16gb ram on my Macbook Pro M2.

[steveisa054 · Accepted solution]

Glad you posted this. Let me chime in and say that Lightroom Classic is eating all my Ram on my Windows 10 PC! I coincidentally put in a new Graphic card yesterday, having 12 GB instead of 6 GB GPU memory, but I am not sure if this has anything to do with the problem. I would not think so. In my case, if I work with Lightroom Classic for about an hour or more, my PC lags and freezes to the point that it is unusable. Looking in Task Manager when this happens, I see that Lightroom has laid claim to over 15 GB of the available motherboard RAM (I have 32 GB installed, but at this point, the total motherboard RAM usage is up near 100%).

Adobe, what is going on here? Doesn't Lightroom Classic ever release memory when it moves on to the next image or next task? Or do I have to restart Lightroom every half hour? I understand from others that Lightroom is apparently not very good at releasing memory again, but if this is true, then this might be something important to improve soon.