Will adding more ram significantly increase speed?

[ahsosl1e8]

Is RAM the bottleneck in running lightroom?

I'm running on a centrino 1.5ghz laptop with 512mb of ram. I've impressed by adobe lightroom's functionality and ease of use. However, speed is rather sluggish. I see alot of rendering during thumbnail browsing as well as editing. It seems like lightroom likes to create and re-create thumbnail previews as i scroll around. Editing photos (like doing curves) also result in the photo refreshing back and forth between low and high res versions. This is really annoying.

I wonder what might be the bottleneck, and checked my ram availability as lightroom is running. While i still have 100~300mb of physical ram available, page file tends to run high at 600+mb.

My photos come from a 6mpx d70, 40% are RAWs.

I have no intention of buying a new system at the moment. If there's nothing else i can do i'd rather stick with picasa...

Advices?

 

[ExplorerZ]

Definitely will help, but after that the bottleneck might be the processor. :sweat:

 

[leyo04]

Is RAM the bottleneck in running lightroom?

I'm running on a centrino 1.5ghz laptop with 512mb of ram. I've impressed by adobe lightroom's functionality and ease of use. However, speed is rather sluggish. I see alot of rendering during thumbnail browsing as well as editing. It seems like lightroom likes to create and re-create thumbnail previews as i scroll around. Editing photos (like doing curves) also result in the photo refreshing back and forth between low and high res versions. This is really annoying.

I wonder what might be the bottleneck, and checked my ram availability as lightroom is running. While i still have 100~300mb of physical ram available, page file tends to run high at 600+mb.

My photos come from a 6mpx d70, 40% are RAWs.

I have no intention of buying a new system at the moment. If there's nothing else i can do i'd rather stick with picasa...

Advices?

2gb if possible. I upgraded mine from 1gb to 2gb recently and I am very happy. upgrade your laptops memory while it's still cheap for your model.

64 SGD for DDr2 1gb - very cheap - bought my mem at Best Bargain at Sim Lim.

for my old laptop, I just upgraded by 512mb and cost me 138 SGD IIRC. :cry:

 

[ahsosl1e8]

Tt's the prob... i'm using ddr333, which is OLD. 145 bucks per stick of 1gb dunno worth or not, given the lens, accessories i'm saving for.

 

[leyo04]

Tt's the prob... i'm using ddr333, which is OLD. 145 bucks per stick of 1gb dunno worth or not, given the lens, accessories i'm saving for.

2x145 = 290 is not cheap.

then you decide, buy a new one (system). but I tell you it's (RAM) not gonna get any cheaper. It's near extinction already.

The reason why I bought the VERY expensive 512mb bcoz the laptop is very special to me.

Buy now b4 GST increase. time is ticking :sweat:

 

[inckurei]

yes. most certainly. the more the merrier!

 

[vince123123]

If you see that the slowdown is because your HDD is reading like crazy during those slowdowns, then yes, RAM will help - slowdowns caused by HDD reading is a sign that the pagefile is being used like crazy.

 

[sammedia]

512mb is too slow..try upgrade to 2 GB.You will feel a lot of difference. At least 100% faster.:thumbsup:

 

[ahsosl1e8]

haiz... $$$ again. Are there any photo management software that are quite as powerful as lightroom yet is less demanding? (got a feeling i'm asking for the moon)

 

[ExplorerZ]

haiz... $$$ again. Are there any photo management software that are quite as powerful as lightroom yet is less demanding? (got a feeling i'm asking for the moon)

maybe its sign to get a desktop? :bsmilie: or a newer laptop

 

[ahsosl1e8]

maybe its sign to get a desktop? or a newer laptop

:bsmilie: I'll do just that... provided i earn money for my photos. A hobby just can't justify such huge expenses.

 

[leyo04]

:bsmilie: I'll do just that... provided i earn money for my photos. A hobby just can't justify such huge expenses.

you can use your laptop for other purposes like, chatting, online game. So, considering, it's not 100% cost for photography only... btw, there are 12 months, 0% interest offered by CC. Make sure you leave your credit card at home after the purchase.. hehehe....

 

[tunster]

If you are using notebook, nothing you can really help except upgrading your RAM OR changing a faster HDD.

For Desktop, upgrade RAM and at the same time, run your PC at RAID 0 (at least 2 harddisks) OR 5 (at least 3 harddisks) configuration will help on harddisk performance.