Bridge EXTREMELY sluggish (CS3)

Question

I am running Bridge CS3.  I have a sub-directory with 134 JPG images in it and no sub-directories off of it.  In addition to most operations being quite sluggish, when I select 'Click to view items in current folder & its sub folders', there is an EXTREME delay on the order of 5 minutes before it displays the 134 images.  Am I doing something wrong?  I have a very large disk drive, so I have allowed Bridge to generate the largest amount of cache.
Shouldn't things be running faster than this?
I might add that this delay remains once I return to normal view and then go to the 'All Subfolders' view again.  It's no faster the second time around.
Thanks, Gary

Answer 1

I think that YOU have the wrong concept of cache.  Having been a
programmer for over 30 years, I can tell you that it is indeed intended
to improve performance.  Otherwise, why have it?  If you can compute
something just as fast on-the-fly, then why store it in a cache file
that has to be read later?
Much of Windows is built around caching disk accesses to improve
performance.
No, my hard disk is not fragmented...It is almost 100% contiguous.
I did have the cache slider set all the way to the right, but that has
been corrected.
I do know that Adobe is a memory hog...Even worse than Micro$oft!  But
it will be a while before I can afford a 64-bit Windows Computer.
In the meantime, compacting the cache speeded things up over 100-fold.
Bridge is still sluggish compared to other programs that I use, but I am
just going to have to live with it with my present resources.
Gary