So here I am at 11 p.m. organizing some images after upgrading my Lightroom Classic to 8.3, and I see on the top of my Mac’s menu bar a giant block of blue. You see, I’m running a little tool called iStat Menu, a hardware monitoring tool that shows nerds, like myself, temperatures, CPU activity, Read/write speeds and so forth. On that wonderful menu bar, I see all 20 threads of my Mac Pro’s processor being used.
I scrambled for a bit as I tried to recall what I had Lightroom do — I had moved a bunch of images, moved catalogs around, cleared previews and eventually tasked it to build standard previews for about 2500 raw pictures. That … that right there was what was setting off all the cpu threads!
Look at that screenshot. Lightroom is using 1919.2% of the available 2000% (100% x 20 threads)!? I got so excited that I ended up texting my local photographer’s group chat right away … and yeah, that was around 11 p.m.
Has Adobe finally improved performance in Lightroom Classic in this update? I honestly can’t tell since I’ve made so many changes to my personal library. I’ve moved all my working photos onto a 2TB RAID 0 portable SSD hard drive along with a Lightroom Catalog — risky, I know, so thankfully it makes a backup copy straight to my aging Drobo 5D. With those changes, I can’t really tell how much performance is being gained — but I will say that it did pretty dang well in my opinion with 2500 standard images, as it finished in just under 15 minutes.
What do you think? Did Lightroom finally speed up for you, or is it just taking more resources? Let’s discuss this and let Adobe know about the performance we’ve been demanding!
If they did indeed update it to take full advantage of multiple threads, it may tempted me back to Adobe’s ecosystem…
MAY being the key word… Will definitely grab a trial version of LRC to try this though.
I’m hoping so— it really could just be an psychological effect for me. I recently just exported about 200 pictures, and it did seem to take a bit less time than usual. I wish I had an older version of Lightroom to compare with the same files (but apparently that’s going to be illegal soon hahahaha).
Was it an issue of not enough threads or it was an issue on mac? I’m on Windows and switched to LR classic when I went to Fuji mirrorless. Always had multicore processing with 8 threads. I don’t have more cores/threads so I’m not sure about scaling beyond 8.
You know, that’s a great question. I’ve personally been on a Mac for most of my Lightroom life with the exception of Lightroom 3. It was just strange to me. I’m used to just seeing every other thread (usually active cores) shoot up in activity, compared to all the threads being lit up. Do all 8 threads get maxed out when you export on your PC?
Was it an issue of not enough threads or it was an issue on mac? I’m on Windows and switched to LR classic when I went to Fuji mirrorless. Always had multicore processing with 8 threads. I don’t have more cores/threads so I’m not sure about scaling beyond 8.
You know, that’s a great question. I’ve personally been on a Mac for most of my Lightroom life with the exception of Lightroom 3. It was just strange to me. I’m used to just seeing every other thread (usually active cores) shoot up in activity, compared to all the threads being lit up. Do all 8 threads get maxed out when you export on your PC?
If they did indeed update it to take full advantage of multiple threads, it may tempted me back to Adobe’s ecosystem…
MAY being the key word… Will definitely grab a trial version of LRC to try this though.
I’m hoping so— it really could just be an psychological effect for me. I recently just exported about 200 pictures, and it did seem to take a bit less time than usual. I wish I had an older version of Lightroom to compare with the same files (but apparently that’s going to be illegal soon hahahaha).
Was it an issue of not enough threads or it was an issue on mac? I’m on Windows and switched to LR classic when I went to Fuji mirrorless. Always had multicore processing with 8 threads. I don’t have more cores/threads so I’m not sure about scaling beyond 8.
You know, that’s a great question. I’ve personally been on a Mac for most of my Lightroom life with the exception of Lightroom 3. It was just strange to me. I’m used to just seeing every other thread (usually active cores) shoot up in activity, compared to all the threads being lit up. Do all 8 threads get maxed out when you export on your PC?
If they did indeed update it to take full advantage of multiple threads, it may tempted me back to Adobe’s ecosystem…
MAY being the key word… Will definitely grab a trial version of LRC to try this though.
I’m hoping so— it really could just be an psychological effect for me. I recently just exported about 200 pictures, and it did seem to take a bit less time than usual. I wish I had an older version of Lightroom to compare with the same files (but apparently that’s going to be illegal soon hahahaha).
No, they didn’t add anything of that… My, 8.3.1, still applies to 150 photos some basic settings (lens correction and style) for about ten minutes! Terrible. And it is doing it by the means of one thread! Other 35 are dormant…
Wow! That is terrible! And it’s doing it with one thread? That’s nuts! Post a screen shot and tell us all about what your specs of your computer are– maybe I can do some digging and see if that’s normal.