Aperture and Lion using ALL my ram

Using Aperture on a Macbook Pro (2008) Intel Duo Core machine.
Worked great with Snow Leaport, but now with Lion, eats ALL of my ram in minutes.
Forget about using any plugin's or external editors, but Aperture itself takes it all.
I have 4GB total in the machine.
If I upgrade the ram to 8gb, will that solve the problem, or does the ram just continue to be sucked
up by Aperture unil it's all gone no matter how much I have in there?
Thanks for any advice.

There is an entire thread on bugs in the Aperture/Lion combo here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15996854#15996854
In a nutshell, Aperture is buggy under Lion. Net result is that it is not usable with 4 GB or less and maybe even 8 GB is not enough.

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I was looking to buy Aperture as part of a birthday gift for my wife, since she love pictures. However, after reading about 10 reviews all have warned aginst this. Have these kinks been worked out with regards to the software and the OS?
Looking for some honest feedback here... I just purchased a new Mac book pro with 4gb and i7 proccessor and dont want this to chew up the performance on my machine.
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WPallstar wrote:...10 reviews all have warned aginst this. Have these kinks been worked out with regards to the software and the OS?
I think you will find that anyone warning against Lion & Aperture did so based on less than 8 GB RAM or less than i7 cpu or on a marginal GPU or on an OS version before10.7.2 or on an Aperture version before 3.1.3 or some combination thereof. Upgrade to 8 GB RAM and your wife's MBP will fit none of those criteria.
• Heavy images-handling applications tend to be hardware and RAM hogs, and Aperture is one of the worst in that regard. One should optimize hardware for performance at every possible opportunity for optimum Aperture performance. Upgrading to 8 GB RAM is cheap via third party (OWC http://eshop.macsales.com/ or Crucial) and easy to install. Just do it - if for no other reason than to know that if you have performance anomalies it will be unlikely to be RAM.
• Most important is to back up originals before import into Aperture or any other images management app. Reading the "Aperture ate my images" threads here is very distressing to a photographer. It is not that Aperture routinely eats images (it does not) but it is a complex pro images application and users make mistakes setting up their workflows. One inexcusable mistake is failing to back up originals prior to working.
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