Q: Process of Merging 2 Libraries never ends
New to Aperture- upgraded from iPhoto. I ran into a disaster with an iPhoto DB that grew out of control. I broke it down into year-by-year pieces in Aperture and "cleaned" the duplicates manually.
I now have started to merge everythibg back together. I reached a point with the newly combined Aperture Library (~40GB) where every time I tried to Merge in another (~20GB) Library Aperture crashed.
So, as a work-around I started to combine the remaining Libraries into a second large Library which has been working OK- I've reached about 45GB on the second combine Librbary and thought I'd Rebuild the first combined library then Merge it with the second combined Library.
The merge has been running overnight, more than 14 hours now- I don't see any change in CPU time or Bytes Read/Written in Activity Monitor in the past 2 hours I have been watching so I am forced to Force Quit Aperture.
So I am trying to merge Stefan's iPhoto Library >2009 (Kind=Aperture Library, Size=46.24 GB) into Stefan's iPhoto Library 2010> (Kind=Photo Library, Size=90.46 GB) ... noticed the difference in the Kinds there - the librbary I was trying to Merge into has obviously growth considerably as the Merge has done a lot of work before becoming stalled/stuck/hung .... not sure exactly what the terminology is here for this situation.
Wondering if I should create a new Aperture Library and Merge Stefan's iPhoto Library 2010> into that, then try again?
I have now Force Quit Aperture, after taking a Spindump, a Sample, and a screenshot of the process summery in Activity Monitor. Have saved those off.
At a loss what to do. Any help much appreciated. HELP?
Here's a TOP .... highlighted Aperture
Stefans-iMac:~ stefan$ top
Processes: 154 total, 2 running, 2 stuck, 150 sleeping, 699 threads 09:33:02
Load Avg: 1.35, 1.44, 1.40 CPU usage: 3.40% user, 14.96% sys, 81.63% idle SharedLibs: 9668K resident, 10M data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 131024 total, 781M resident, 36M private, 182M shared. PhysMem: 2486M used (1075M wired), 14M unused.
VM: 566G vsize, 1066M framework vsize, 46778989(0) swapins, 48436583(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 2566221/1723M in, 2669879/1433M out.
Disks: 4614017/354G read, 4563063/397G written.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT #MREGS MEM RPRVT PURG CMPRS VPRVT VSIZE PGRP PPID STATE UID FAULTS COW MSGSENT
5839 syncdefaults 0.0 00:00.48 6 2 88 66 4308K 3140K 0B 0B 33M 2415M 5839 160 sleeping 501 5054 351 1703
5838 top 31.8 00:56.19 1/1 0 23 33 3556K 3328K 0B 0B 26M 2385M 5838 5832 running 0 128473+ 74 31598454+
5832 bash 0.0 00:00.02 1 0 19 29 572K 416K 0B 0B 26M 2385M 5832 5829 sleeping 501 547 140 43
5830 CVMCompiler 0.0 00:00.36 2 1 31 68 14M 13M 0B 0B 36M 2421M 5830 160 sleeping 501 6546 249 64
5829 login 0.0 00:00.37 2 0 30 42 892K 564K 0B 0B 31M 2389M 5829 5827 sleeping 0 800 126 103
5827 Terminal 2.3 00:05.05 9 3 192+ 165+ 17M+ 6320K+ 0B 52K 35M+ 2488M+ 5827 160 sleeping 501 15357+ 570 21016+
5814 tccd 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 35 41 620K 272K 0B 552K 31M 2399M 5814 1 sleeping 0 832 133 150
5813 com.apple.au 0.0 00:00.04 2 1 47 53 328K 120K 0B 1044K 23M 2391M 5813 1 sleeping 501 1996 271 245
5812 com.apple.au 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 30 42 44K 24K 0B 980K 23M 2390M 5812 1 sleeping 501 1487 191 109
.....
5702 com.apple.We 0.0 00:19.99 15 1 282 1450 115M 112M 0B 38M 446M 3707M 5702 1 sleeping 501 154871 694 23396+
5701 com.apple.We 0.0 00:35.92 5 1 115 304 23M 12M 0B 5224K 31M 3461M 5701 1 sleeping 501 75060 681 175884+
5699 Safari 0.0 00:56.73 16 1 393- 918- 56M- 39M- 0B 56M 409M- 3720M- 5699 160 sleeping 501 411277 7418 296393+
4599- com.apple.qt 0.0 00:02.14 3 0 145 176 1024K 828K 0B 11M 44M 671M 4599 1 sleeping 501 46823 1202 13571
4587 Aperture 0.0 01:48:50 33 2 404 98736 -108K 108K 0B 19G 193G 196G 4587 160 sleeping 501 83410219 46766 3538563
4397 EvernoteHelp 0.0 00:01.86 3 0 143 131 2052K 1632K 0B 5504K 34M 2463M 4397 160 sleeping 501 48675 462 27580
3647 helpd 0.0 00:00.42 2 0 46 42 208K 124K 0B 840K 23M 2412M 3647 160 sleeping 501 19989 192 2300
3407 Activity Mon 0.0 09:59.74 6 3 223 360 34M 12M 0B 19M 68M 2550M 3407 160 sleeping 501 3441146 1399 2174868
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Mid-2007 17" 2.4GHz Core2Duo 4GB
Posted on Mar 1, 2014 5:55 PM