Freezes, beach ball, crashes

[jimtron]

I'm using a new installation of LR 2 on a Mac Pro (2.66 dual core) with 5GB ram. At first I tried using a single catalog, but with over 1''k images things got awful pokey. Now I'm trying to just use a working images catalog for now (about 1'k images). I'm getting the spinning beach ball and other hangups--freezes and crashes. Any suggestions?

My startup drive has 24'gb free. My catalog resides on an internal drive with 147gb free.

 

[Brad Snyder]

Jim,

I'm on Windows, but I believe there is at least one known internal bug which has the potential beach-balling on Macs. Something like a memory or resource-leak under some specific conditions, which is to be addressed in a dot release.

I'm not sure there is a work-around for this at this point. If you've kept up with LR forums around the net, you'll know that LR2 performance is all over the map for various folks/systems/workflows. Reactions vary from ecstatic to irate.

How's that for a weasel worded non-answer?

 

[jimtron]

OK, thanks.

 

[rjiphotography]

I have the same problem on my Mac Pro 2.8 Dual Quad with 6gb ram. I asked the question over at NAPP and here's what they suggested. I haven't tried it yet but thought I would give you the information. It's worth a try.

- go to Lightroom > Catalog Settings > General and click the Relaunch
and Optimize button

- when Lightroom relaunches, go to Lightroom > Preferences > File
Handling, increase the camera raw cache to 25-4'GB (depending upon how
much room you have)
- click OK
- reboot and see if that makes a difference

 

[jimtron]

rji: thanks for the tip, I think that worked for me. I was just having trouble once again with LR crashing repeatedly while trying to make a small Web gallery. I came back here to check the thread, and then tried increasing the raw cache. After doing that I was able to complete and upload the gallery.

 

[jimtron]

Ah that did help, but problem is happening again. Increased raw cache to 4'GB, optimized catalog, but it keeps crashing as I build a web gallery. Anyone else having this trouble? Any other suggestions?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

On one specific photo? My first thought is it's hitting a corrupted file.

 

[jimtron]

[quote author=Victoria Bampton link=topic=3154.msg6'84'#msg6'84' date=12645'1452]
On one specific photo? My first thought is it's hitting a corrupted file.
[/quote]
No, I don't think it's a corrupted file. I've had this problem with several different shoots, and I've never found a bad file.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Which gallery? One of the build in ones, or a third party? Tried with a different gallery? Tried with a smaller export?

 

[jimtron]

[quote author=Victoria Bampton link=topic=3154.msg6'949#msg6'949 date=1264589551]
Which gallery? One of the build in ones, or a third party? Tried with a different gallery? Tried with a smaller export?
[/quote]

I almost always use LR Flash Gallery. Small exports tend to work fine.

 

[jimtron]

I've been rendering one of my internal drives for the last hour or so, and it seems to be going fine. I have a hunch I may be having trouble with my FW & USB interfaces. I recently had a scanner hang that was connected via FW4'', and seem to be having trouble with external drives and LR. Again, I'm using USB as well as FW8'' external drives.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

I think you may be right.... it's not something daft like the external drives going to sleep, or something like that?

 

[jimtron]

[quote author=Victoria Bampton link=topic=3154.msg65873#msg65873 date=12728734'6]
I think you may be right.... it's not something daft like the external drives going to sleep, or something like that?
[/quote]

I just checked, and "put hard drives to sleep" is not checked in my OS X system prefs. At the Apple forums I'm looking into possible FW/USB issue.

 

[jimtron]

Update:

Working with Apple support--so far no sign of FW/USB issues. I am having frequent freezes (spinning beach ball) with LR 2.7 and 2.6 (tried downgrading as some users have solved issues that way).

 

[jimtron]

An update: LR 3 so far seems to have cured the freezes and crashes I was experiencing (although it is often really slow, but that's for another thread).