Adjustment Brush Settings and Masks performance slow + jittery

Are there any tweaks to solve these issues? Takes about 2 seconds to actuate. I know this doesn't seem slow, but when doing hundreds of images it sure puts a bottleneck in the workflow.
Graduated Filter performance not great but acceptable.
Windows XP Pro SP3
ACR 5
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS 256 mg memory updated drivers
Thanks,
Dennis

Is this the for the first local adjustment of an image, or only after there are a bunch of existing local adjustments?

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Please expand the "Auto Mask" capability on the "Adjustment Brush".
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In its current state, LR samples a narrow range under the cursor which creates a mask having numerous voids.
Adding a “color range" and "fall off" sliders to the Adjustment Brush's "Auto Mask" would expand the sampling range and therefore the create a smoother soft-edge mask with adjustable tolerance. This would greatly expand the function of this powerful tool. (see 2 options inserted below)
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There is another thread at http://forums.adobe.com/message/4142055 ("soften auto mask"), where users have also been asking for feathering and an upgrade to the performance and usability of the auto mask.

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And whether that works (Photoshop > Preferences > Performance > GPU Settings) depends on your graphic display card (and its driver).
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Hello everyone ...
I am a new to this forum. I've been hanging out as an observer and have decided to get my feet wet with my first posting.
I'm a wedding photographer and have been a Lightroom user since the first beta release and totally love the program. I am using a mac G5 dual 2.7 with 6 GB of ram. Up until release 1.4 Lightroom has been great.
Release 2.0 has been another story. I have installed all updates including the newly released 2.1. It appears there is still an issue with the adjustment brush. If I use the brush without 'auto mask' the brush flows smoothly. As soon as 'auto mask' is engaged the tool becomes useless. The flow is slow and choppy, plus I have to contend with an almost constant spinning beach ball.
Has anyone else been experiencing this problem? Is there a fix? Or, might this be an issue that Adobe is still working on.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to introduce myself and any help with this issue would be most appreciated.
Thanks ... Fred

From the Known Issues sections of the release notes:
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Adjustment Brush: Flow and Feather

Not so much a question, as an observation. Maybe it will help somebody.
I'm not a big user of the Adjustment Brush. I tend to use it occasionally for applying Clarity, Highlight Recovery, or applying/removing Sharpening.
I'd never much paid attention to the Flow and Density settings before today, and I certainly never really understood the Flow setting. The Feather setting never seemed to work as expected too. So, I just spent 10 minutes with a 50% grey image and a -2-stop brush, getting to the bottom of it all.
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No, that's just it: it's not what I was saying. It is what I expected, but not what I found. Time has nothing to do with it. You can take as long as you like, and no more paint comes off the brush. That was the point I was making, and why I said I thought that "flow" was the wrong word. To me, flow is time-related (volume per second).
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