Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do any of you use the "purge" command within the terminal? I used to use an app called Free Memory, but it was always tying my computer while freeing memory. Now I just use the "purge" line command. Jeffery On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > I agree with what previous responders have said. LR did crawl some time > ago, when I had a memory leak in Firefox, and available memory got down to > a few hundred bytes. > > I just did some operations in LR while watching disk activity in Activity > Monitor. While it is hard to make a quantitative evaluation of what I saw, > the graphic display showed peaks of activity with plenty of empty time > space between these peaks, indicating that my internal disk was working a > fraction of the time. I would therefore conclude that having a faster > storage device would not make a detectable difference. > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:35 PM, Peter Cheyne <peter.cheyne at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I use a Macbook Pro from around 2008 (2.33 Core 2 Duo) and it's starting >> to >> get slow. Especially with Lightroom tasks. I upgraded it to 4 GB Ram (3 GB >> usable RAM). >> >> My friend says I should think about changing the HDD for an SSD. Would >> this >> really make the computer generally faster, and would it mean less waiting >> around for Lightroom to do things like zoom in on photos and export >> selected DNGs as JPGs? >> >> All the best, >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information