Aperture running at a crawl since lion upgrade

Curiouser and curiouser.

Bought a spanking new 4Gb iMac, downloaded Lion from the App store and installed it. Ditto Aperture.

With Aperture running the system was unusable it was so slow and would hang but eventually allow cursor response. Switched to 32 bit mode and saw some improvement, but discovered 50+Gb page outs in a couple days of up time.

Order 8Gb more memory and installed it. Huzzah! With 12Gb, I had crisp response to everything during 6 hours of photo work in Aperture and iPhoto, and text editing in Pages while running and occasionally using Evernote, iTunes, Safari and Mail (about 6.6Gb of memory used, 5.5 free).

Left early, system idle for a few minutes and then sleeping for 15 hours. This morning, I hit the return key and system came up with Acitivity Monitor in the foreground and Aperture cranking away doing something that used ~170% of processor with nothing showing in activity window. System memory shows 1.7Mb of page outs.

Did you exclude the folders with your A3 library and referenced files from Spotlight and Time Machine?

Thomas, IMHO, this behavior is normal. I see this in Snow Leopard on my 12GB iMac

Aperture can go off on its own doing odd stuff, like processing RAW files with the latest RAW processor. Go to Window > Show Activity and then you can see what it's up to. Past couple of days I've been seeing a lot of this.

Also, I see amounts of Page Outs like a few megs, or even a few hundred megs if I've been working the system hard for a good while

For example right now, my system has been up for 26 hours (since last boot), and ...

VM size = 242 GB

Page Ins = 71 GB

Page Outs = 405 MB (tiny in comparison to Page Ins)

Swap Used = 31 MB

PS above numbers are rounded for clarity

Message was edited by: John Kitchen - added PS

Hi John,

Nothing normal about this, seems to me. As I said, "...170% of processor with nothing showing in activity window....," and the page outs occurred while the system was idle.

BTW, where is up time listed? I've seen it, but can't recall where.

Tom

Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough. I wonder what was going on 😕. I'm confused.

Up time is given in MenuMeters on my system - http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

Or even easier, open Terminal and type "uptime"

This widget still seems to work for me too - http://jokke.dk/software/widgets.

Does one thing and does it well - shows your uptime. No connection.

Thomas Harnish wrote:

BTW, where is up time listed? I've seen it, but can't recall where.

Tom,

I just tripped over yet another source of "up time". Quite by accident.

System Profiler > Software and you'll see it as "Time since boot"

A-hah! That' the one I stumbled on too, but couldn't remember. Thanks!

There seems to be some issues with 3rd party video codecs. For example DivX and Flip4Mac are not Lion-ready and so if you have video in you aperture library your going to see the spinning beach ball/CD mouse.

i spent $50 and went from 4GB to 8GB,and it was like I bought a new computer! A3 using 3.4GB of memory, so my old 4GB configuration was obvioulsy thrashing.

I am still getting the spinning beachball, however, whenever i use the "Projects" view 😟

Now that the Lion update (10.7.1) is out, I turned Aperture back to 64-bit. So far, so good. But it is still too early to tell.

What are other folks seeing?

OMG -- its fixed for me too!

Ditto here too! Have gone back to 64bit mode and put spotlight indexing back on pictures directory also. Goes up to 1.5GB after flicking through some raw images, but real mem does come down when you leave Aperture idle. Page outs under control too. Seems 10.7.1 resolves this issue! Hurrah!

And equally on an iMac with 4GB memory. I had to try it over lunch and suddenly no problems anymore. Why didn't the update of Lion list the fix for Aperture? Or is that a naive question when it had not even been officially acknowledged by Apple.

Very slow for me too. Computer has frozen a couple of times too. A pity. Not what I usually expect from Apple.