FCP7 Bogging Down

I was hoping that some one could help with my Final Cut Pro 7 question.
I have the an 8 Core 6 gigs of ram. 8TB 7200rpm. Editing all in HD with XDCam footage.
I am strarting to get bogged down when I am edtting my videos. Does any body know how to clean up the system so I am running more efficient in final cut pro 7? My main video files are on one drive and the preview files are set to another drive. Main install of FCP7 is on my Main Drive.
Can you help?
Steve

HI
Me again.
And all External Hard Disks - formatted as Mac OS Extended (hfs) ? - Mine are (and journaled).
Select one - and click on it's icon on DeskTop/Finder
press [cmd+I]
read - formatted as
UNIX / DOS / FAT32 / Mac Exchange - works for most other things BUT NOT FOR VIDEO !
New - NTFS ??????? (WINDOW standard today) - need special programs to be able to be read and written too
Yours Bengt W

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By bog down i mean that every operation has a noticeable lag time before initiating.
I have a mid-2010 iMac
3.2 GHz Intel Core i3
512 MB ATI Radeon graphic card
12 GB 1333MHz DDR3 in 4-4-2-2 formation
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Here is my most recent system diagnostic report from the Console. I really can't make sense of it unfortunately but was hoping some more technically literate folks out there might see something obvious that points to an identifiable problem.
Process:
coresymbolicationd [719]
Path:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreSymbolication.framework/coresymbolicationd
Identifier:
coresymbolicationd
Version:
141
Code Type:
X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Responsible:
coresymbolicationd [719]
User ID:
0
Date/Time:
2013-12-30 18:51:57.908 -0600
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: C37F79B1-DC99-0E09-DA0E-38B0F635A22C
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-overcommit-priority
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x0000000109e85000
VM Regions Near 0x109e85000:
VM_ALLOCATE
0000000109a00000-0000000109a89000 [ 548K] rw-/rw- SM=PRV
--> mapped file
0000000109a89000-0000000109ec5000 [ 4336K] r--/rwx SM=S/A /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data
mapped file
0000000109ec5000-000000010a301000 [ 4336K] rw-/rwx SM=S/A /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/grow.3X7N0TQ
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-overcommit-priority
0   libsystem_platform.dylib
0x00000001075bf0de _platform_memmove$VARIANT$Nehalem + 254
1   coresymbolicationd
0x00000001067983bc 0x106791000 + 29628
2   coresymbolicationd
0x00000001067987e9 0x106791000 + 30697
3   coresymbolicationd
0x0000000106792a23 0x106791000 + 6691
4   libxpc.dylib
0x000000010762d510 _xpc_connection_call_event_handler + 58
5   libxpc.dylib
0x000000010762c123 _xpc_connection_mach_event + 2124
6   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ebafe _dispatch_client_callout4 + 9
7   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ec3b8 _dispatch_mach_msg_invoke + 143
8   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ea633 _dispatch_queue_drain + 359
9   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072eb69e _dispatch_mach_invoke + 154
10 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072e9fa3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 75
11 libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072eb193 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 40
12 libsystem_pthread.dylib
0x00000001075dcef8 _pthread_wqthread + 314
13 libsystem_pthread.dylib
0x00000001075dffb9 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-overcommit-priority
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x00000001074c7caa __sigsuspend_nocancel + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072f27e4 _dispatch_sigsuspend + 21
2   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072f27cf _dispatch_sig_thread + 45
Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x00000001074c8662 kevent64 + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ea43d _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 239
2   libdispatch.dylib
0x00000001072ea152 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000109ec5000 rbx: 0x00000001091df198 rcx: 0x0000000000000010 rdx: 0x000000000003f1c9
rdi: 0x000000010a2c0fd0 rsi: 0x0000000109e84fd0 rbp: 0x00000001090c03c0 rsp: 0x00000001090c03c0
   r8: 0x0000000000000005   r9: 0x000000000b6e0000 r10: 0x0000000000000001 r11: 0x000000000043c000
r12: 0x00000001091df198 r13: 0x00007f8b604175e0 r14: 0x0000000109a89000 r15: 0x0000000109ec5000
rip: 0x00000001075bf0de rfl: 0x0000000000010202 cr2: 0x0000000109e85000
Logical CPU:
2
Error Code:
0x00000004
Trap Number:
14
Binary Images:
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0x7fff66cc6000 -
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External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 4500
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=35.3M resident=33.3M(94%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=2044K(6%)
Writable regions: Total=47.8M written=2120K(4%) resident=2688K(5%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=45.2M(95%)
REGION TYPE
VIRTUAL
===========
=======
Dispatch continuations
8192K
Kernel Alloc Once
4K
MALLOC
28.3M
MALLOC (admin)
16K
STACK GUARD
12K
Stack
65.1M
VM_ALLOCATE
572K
__DATA
3168K
__LINKEDIT
9892K
__TEXT
25.7M
__UNICODE
544K
mapped file
9808K
shared memory
4K
===========
=======
TOTAL
150.5M
From the looks of this report, it appears like on Thread 0 crashed. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to fix this.
Any help would be really appreciated. I'm kind of at my wits end here.
-Rick

If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything suggested in this comment. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as some other aspects of the configuration that may be related to the problem.
Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken while booted in “normal” mode. If the system is now running in safe mode and is bootable in normal mode, reboot as usual. If it only boots in safe mode, use that.
Below are instructions to enter UNIX shell commands. They do nothing but produce human-readable output. However, you need to think carefully before running any program at the behest of a stranger on a public message board. If you question the safety of the procedure suggested here — which you should — search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them.
The commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it.
If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
PB=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy; PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/   /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; PC () { o=$(grep [^[:blank:]] "$2"); PR "$1"; }; PF () { o=$($PB -c Print "$2" | awk -F'= ' \/$3'/{print $2}'); PR "$1"; }; PN () { [[ $o -eq 0 ]] || printf "\n%s: %s\n" "$1" $o; }; { system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | sed '8!d;s/^ *//'; o=$(system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | sed '5,6!d'); fgrep -q P <<< "$o" && o=; PR "POST"; o=$(($(vm_stat | awk '/Pageo/{sub("\\.",""); print $2}')/256)); o=$((o>=1024?o:0)); PN "Pageouts (MiB)"; s=( $(sar -u 1 10 | sed '$!d') ); [[ ${s[4]} -lt 90 ]] && o=$( printf 'User %s%%\t\tSystem %s%%' ${s[1]} ${s[3]} ) || o=; PR "Total CPU usage"; [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(ps acrx -o comm,ruid,%cpu | sed '2!d'); PR "Max %CPU by process (name, UID, %)"; o=$(kextstat -kl | grep -v com\\.apple | cut -c53- | cut -d\< -f1); PR "Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions"; o=$(launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)|\.[0-9]+$/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic user agents"; o=$(launchctl getenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES); PR "Inserted libraries"; PC "cron configuration" /e*/cron*; o=$(crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "User cron tasks"; PC "Global launchd configuration" /e*/lau*; PC "Per-user launchd configuration" ~/.lau*; PF "Global login items" /L*/P*/loginw* Path; PF "Per-user login items" L*/P*/*loginit* Name; PF "Safari extensions" L*/Saf*/*/E*.plist Bundle | sed 's/\..*$//;s/-[1-9]$//'; o=$(find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ | wc -l); PN "Restricted user files"; cd; o=$(find -L /S*/L*/E* {,/}L*/{A*d,Compon,Ex,In,Keyb,Mail/Bu,P*P,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo}* -type d -name Contents -prune | while read d; do ID=$($PB -c 'Print :CFBundleIdentifier' "$d/Info.plist") || ID=; ID=${ID:-No bundle ID}; egrep -qv "^com\.apple\.[^x]|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|HDPro|HighPoint|driver\.stex|hp-fax|JMicron|microsoft\.MDI|print|SoftRAID" <<< $ID && printf '%s\n\t(%s)\n' "${d%/Contents}" "$ID"; done); PR "Extrinsic loadable bundles"; o=$(find /u*/{,*/}lib -type f -exec sh -c 'file -b "$1" | grep -qw shared && ! codesign -v "$1"' {} {} \; -print); PR "Unsigned shared libraries"; o=$(system_profiler SPFontsDataType | egrep "Valid: N|Duplicate: Y" | wc -l); PN "Font problems"; for d in {,/}L*/{La,Priv,Sta}*; do o=$(ls -A "$d"); PR "$d"; done; } 2> /dev/null | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 1 done'
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take up to a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. Wait for the line "Step 1 done" to appear below what you entered. The output of the command will beautomatically copied to the Clipboard. All you have to do is paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-Vagain. Please don't copy anything from the Terminal window. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
PR () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=$(sed 's/^/   /' <<< "$o") && printf '\n%s:\n\n%s\n' "$1" "$o"; }; { o=$(sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'); PR "Loaded extrinsic daemons"; o=$(sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook); PR "Login hook"; o=$(sudo crontab -l | grep [^[:blank:]]); PR "Root cron tasks"; o=$(syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'); PR "Log check"; } 2>&- | pbcopy; echo $'\nStep 2 done'
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
You can then quit Terminal. Please note:
☞ Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — type only your login password when prompted.
☞ When you type your password, you won't see what you're typing.
☞ If you don’t have a password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
☞ Step 2 might not produce any output, in which case the Clipboard will be empty. Step 1 will always produce something.
☞ The commands don't change anything, and merely running them will do neither good nor harm.
☞ Remember to post the output of both steps (unless you had to skip Step 2.) It's already in the Clipboard after you complete each step. You don't have to copy it. Just paste into a reply
☞ If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of either command, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
☞ Don't post what you see in the Terminal window. The output is copied automatically to the Clipboard.
☞ Don't paste the output of Step 1 into the Terminal window. Paste it into a reply.

Old previews bogging down hard drive backups

When I backup my hard drive to another hard drive, using Vica-Versa software, there are often lots (thousands) of older LR preview files that need to be deleted off the backup drive. With Vica-Versa the entire process just bogs down and can take forever. I have tried several other backup programs and have found no solutions. Is there a way to keep LR from creating previews at all? I know that would slow me down as I work with Lightroom, but right now I'd be willing to wait a little longer for a preview to be rebuilt than to have to deal with the incredible amounts of time it takes to backup my hard drive. Any suggestions? Thanks. Frank. [email protected]

Frank,
fjlfourteen wrote:
... Thanks for the suggestion, but would I put the preview files somewhere else manually, or is there a way to set up LR so that preview files would be directed to a place other than where the main image files are located? It seems to me that I remember seeing that kind of an option somewhere, but I'm not finding it either in general preferences or in catalog settings.
Unfortunately there is no way (I know of) of telling LR where to put the preview files, they're put into a subfolder of the folder where the catalog resides (and not where the original image files are located!).
b_gossweiler wrote:
... But what would make the entire process easier to control would be the ability to put your preview files where you wanted to, like the ACR cache. That way, you could put them onto a (fast) drive never backed up and used for cache type data only. ...
This was a wish only :-)
fjlfourteen wrote:
... The idea about simply not backing up the preview files is a good one, but I have lots of catalogs, and setting each one up to have its preview files not backed up would be quite a piece of work all in itself. ...
That's exactly the reason why I would like the option of telling LR where to put the previews. But, unfortunately, not (yet) possible.
I have excluded the previews from my backups with the following mask:
D:\*.lrdata\*.*
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

Premiere Pro CC 2014 Crashing and Bogging Down on Documentary Film Project

We have been working in Premiere on this documentary film for months.
As we reach completion it is beginning to really bog down and crash a lot.
Equipment is
iMac 27 inch 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 Late 2013 Model
Apple Cinema HD Display
32 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB Graphics Card
1TB internal SSD Drive
We are running Premiere Pro CC 2014.0.1 and have remained there because we don't want to upgrade the software in the middle of the project.
The media is all on the external drive. It's a USB 3.0 connection. There is quite a lot of footage that we are working with.
We do have some After Effects comps that are linked in the project and we have exported the ones that are complete as QuickTimes to try to stop that from bogging us down.
Any advice on how we can manage this crashing and freezing problem would be much appreciated.
We don't have the cash to upgrade the computer and it has been working pretty well for us so far.
Here are things we have done:
Made a smaller timeline because we were working on one that was the entire movie.
Turned off the secondary monitor and unplugged it.
We are looking at moving the render cache off the external drive to a thunderbolt drive, but I'm concerned that this may take a long time.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Splitting up the read/write items is rather a key to getting smoother operation out of PrPro. Either that or putting things on a large RAID-0/5, this sort of thing is covered over on the
Tweaker's Page ...
http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page
And I highly recommend you take a look. Their info isn't just "we think ... " ... but the results of many many carefully crafted test sequences run on many machines with all sorts of hardware bits & pieces. You can also register, download the PBM test and run it on your own machine. It takes only a little while to do so, and with the logger app that's included and posting the results back to them, you can get a very good breakdown on where your machine is doing ok ... and where any choke points are occurring.
I think this would be good for you right now ... you need to get stuff done, not guess & try things.
Neil

Mac Mail Sent File bogging down Mail, and entire system

At Mail start up, when I go to my Sent File, it appears to be attempting to update/access the file (that shouldn't need that much updating). The small pie chart icon that shows progress next to the Sent Folder starts, but doesn't progress past the first little sliver and the rainbow pinwheel just spins and spins and spins.
It ends up bogging down and eventually locking up the whole machine.
If I leave it alone and let it spin for a while (like 5-10 minutes) it will eventually finish whatever it was trying to do but any attempts in the interim to do much of anything is futile - even a force quit is super super laggy.
This problem has only been happening for the last week or so. I can't associate it with any sort of update or activity - it seems to have just come out of thin air.
Really making using mail almost impossible. Needless to say this is putting a significant cramp in my work which is especially email heavy.
Please advise.
MacBook Pro ('08 I think)
Running 10.6.8 (have not updated due to incompatibility with critical software)
Mail Version 4.6
Thanks

Eric,
It worked, thanks!
What is a "rebuild"? and why did that mailbox need rebuilding (and others didn't)?
Thanks again.

My ibook has become inefficient/bogged down

When I am browsing the web or using mail, I see at times the cursor changes to a hourglass (or its mac version i.e a circle with rainbow colour pattern) and I cannot do anything for a minute or 2 -until it returns to a normal cursor. Also, switching between mail or safari takes a lot of time, as if the apps are jammed/trying to fetch something.
when i was typing the subject line, after "inefficient/", the circle appeared and I had to wait for a minute to type "bogged down".
I believe I have installed some updates (automatic install) which might have caused this. Can someone help me restore the mac to former self? do I need to create more swap space or some such thing to alleviate the problem?
thanks
-kamal

Your 3.51 GB free is marginal. It's best not to use a %, but an absolute value. Your Mac needs adequate hard drive space to operate normally. How full can a drive be before it's too full? There is no hard and fast rule that says “X” amount or “%” of free drive space is needed. A low amount of RAM requires more drive space for Virtual Memory’s swap files.
Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space are discussed in this link
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html How much RAM do you have?
Here’s some general guidelines for minimum hard drive free space: As a general rule, your available space should be 5GB as an absolute minimum as it generally requires that much free space to perform an Archive and Install of Mac OS X and still preserve some free space for VM swap files.
Look at these links.
Where did my disk space go?
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243
Download & use WhatSize described in this link or Disk Inventory X @ http://www.derlien.com/
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Amazing Disappearing Drive Space
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html
Increase HD Free Space
http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/275191-how-easily-increase-hd-free-space-lap top.html
How to free up my disk space
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
Regarding your run of Disk Utility & the error messages - Did you use Disk Utility to do the repair? Or did Disk Utility say it could not repair? If the latter, DiskWarrior can probably fix your problem. DiskWarrior by Alsoft http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
Suggestion - Instead of using an online storge service, buy an external firewire enclosure hard drive and use it to make backups of your Mac's internal hard drive. Having a backup is very important. Currently, if you have a hard drive failure, all of your files will be lost.
I also noticed you are running Tiger version 10.4.3. You should update to the final version 10.4.11 which includes some bug fixes & improvements. Here's the link for the 10.4.11 combo update http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US
 Cheers, Tom

Bogging down with large number of photos

I have over 115,000 (give or take a few 1000) photos in iPhoto at present. I primarily use it to organize photos so I can find them, make slideshows, and hope to eventually make photo books - they're our family history for the past 7 years or so. My iPhoto library is about 155 GB.
I'm running this on the iMac - bought a couple of months ago. 4GB RAM with a 1T HD.
My main grumble is that whenever iPhoto is open, my iMac bogs down. I frequently see the spinning wheel, beach ball, or whatever it's called, particularly when I have the iPhoto to the front and it's just starting up... (plus other times).
A local Mac person thought that if I moved to Aperture, it would handle this number of photos much better... I've never much looked at Aperture before, so I'm not sure... About 2+ years ago, I had PCs and used Adobe Photoshop Elements - loved the organizer, and the level of editing power was just about right.... These days, I have next to no time for any editing except the occasional red-eye, but I can enjoy doing it on occasion (mostly swapping out backgrounds, making collages, etc).
What could I do to improve things???

iPhoto is rated for 250,000 images and while you've a way to go just yet that is still a very big library.
With Libraries of that size I would expect a slowness loading or quitting, though not in normal use - viewing, organizing and so on.
You may be able to speed up launching by turning off all automatic syncing - looking for Shared Libraries, Checking with Mobile Me etc in the Preferences.
Aperture is indeed a Professional application, but I would caution that there is less value in it if you're not shooting Raw and that there is a learning curve in using it. You can download a free trial of Aperture [here|http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial>
You can have multiple libraries in iPhoto, however the downside is that you can only have one open at a time.
If you opt to go that way then to create a library: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library' and use the same keystroke to Choose between Libraries.
Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager
Regards
TD

Select clob column bogs down sqldeveloper GUI

Hi,
If I select a clob field, sqldeveloper completely slows down, taking seconds (many more than usual) for any GUI even.
i.e. this bogs down sqldeveloper:
select clob_col_name
from table_containing_clob_field;
I thought this may be a memory issue (as it could be downloading the whole clob, but I did not take time to verify). However even selecting one char from the clob column makes the sqldeveloper GUI lag
i.e. even this bogs down sqldeveloper:
select substr(clob_col_name, 1, 1)
from table_containing_clob_field;
Running select '' from dual; will bring the sqldeveloper GUI back to it's normal responsiveness.
IMO this is a bug, selecting 1 char from 30 records should not slow down every GUI event in the whole application.
Should I submit a bug or does anyone want to discuss this further?
Edited by: mdaly on Jul 8, 2009 6:09 PM

What version of the Oracle database?
- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Prod
How is the CLOB column stored? Inline or out of line?
- CREATE
TABLE "STYLESHEET"
"NAME" NVARCHAR2(60) NOT NULL ENABLE,
"VER" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
"STYLESHEET" CLOB NOT NULL ENABLE,
"DATEADDED" TIMESTAMP (6) DEFAULT SYSDATE NOT NULL ENABLE,
CONSTRAINT "STYLESHEET_NAME_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("NAME")
How large are the clobs?
- ~40kB
Why are you using Substringing one character of a CLOB does not mean that the entire clob from every column must be read into memory.
- I was using substr to test if sqldeveloper behaved the same when 1 character from the clob was selected versus not using any substr function.
Surely Oracle version or the way the clob is stored should not affect how the sqldeveloper GUI responds after a resultset is returned?

Illustrator CS3 seriously bogging down

Here's what I've got -- a 48 mb Illustrator file that is just shapes. No blends, gradients, brushes, filters, effects, gradient meshes, nada. Just plain old shapes. Rectangles, and stuff. Sure, 48 mb is a lot of vector art, but man, is it ever bogging down my machine. Here's what's happening;
5 minutes to launch the file. over 15 minutes to save the file. every mouse click is followed by a 5-10 second delay. Zooming in or out, or using the hand tool causes a 15-20 second delay. Deleting an object (I AM trying to simplify the file!) causes a 10-15 second delay. After working on it for about 30 minutes, it refuses to display in preview, any longer, as "memory is full."
No other apps running, except the Finder.
Machine specs:
OS 10.5.5
Dual 2.0 G5
Radeon 9800 pro with 128 mb video RAM
4 gig RAM
OS & apps live on one drive, 160 GB, with about 70 GB open.
Files only reside on a separate 500 GB drive, with 350 GB open. This is the drive assigned as scratch disk.
Photoshop on this machine eats 50 mb files for lunch. (opens & saves in 2-3 seconds -- no lags doing any operations, except heavy filters) In fact, it eats 200 mb files for lunch.
Is Illustrator really that slow compared to Photoshop, or is there something wrong with my install?

Huh. Created new user account, logged out of current account to clear memory, logged in to new account, launched only illustrator, opened file -- still 2-3 minutes to open, and I only got about 6 edits in before I got the "could not complete the request -- memory full" message when attempting to turn preview on. This file is built with 6 Pantone spot-color swatches. I am attempting to find hidden objects and delete them, as well as trim overlapping objects to reduce the number of vector points, but man -- this just doesn't seem right.
I've got pretty much the same machine at home, except with a Radeon 9600 Pro with 256 mb VRAM. I might take it home tonight and see if anything different happens there. There's also a quad-intel machine at the other end of the building, but from what I can tell, Illustrator only uses one CPU no matter what. I may move the file back there in a few minutes, just to see.

I'm having problems with FlashPlayerPlugin and plugin-container. They keep starting up and bogging down the system. This has been a recent occurrance. I've made sure that I have the latest version. I notice the problem when I am opening some applicatio, a

I'm having problems with FlashPlayerPlugin and plugin-container. They keep starting up and bogging down the system. This has been a recent occurrance. I've made sure that I have the latest version. I notice the problem when I am opening some applicatio, and it freezes. If I go to Task Manager, I can see the two Adobe apps sucking up CPU cycles. If I end the processes, then the other apps continue. Today, I uninstalled FlashPlayerPluginqand plugin-container. All day since I have had no freezing of an app. What should I do to correct the problem?

Here's an explanation of what those processes are.
Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox
I'm curious about what you did to uninstall just those.

When I use the spotting tool on a very dirty image it bogs down. Can I collapse the work?

What is the best way to save or collapse the work I have done on an image so I can get back to working at a good speed? I am guessing if I saved the image as a JPEG and reimported it that would add noise. There is probably a simple way to solve this. Any answers?
Thanks

Robert,
There is still a known bug where LR (including 3.3RC) bogs down when large number of spots are utilized. Every system is different and most systems appear to not have this problem. Personally, on my system, cleaning up a BW scan will bog down when I add around 50 spots and become unbearable by 100 - sometimes even hanging for 30 seconds or more.
Some improvement was provided with the 3.3RC in that the hanging is less likely; however, the slowdown is still experienced and adding more spots once it gets to this phase is not an option.
If 3.3RC doesn't solve your problem, and space is not an issue, you might consider exporting (and automatically re-importing) in TIFF format. You will probably lose the least amount of detail and introduce the least amount of noise that way as opposed to a JPEG file. You can then continue working on the re-imported TIFF file as your original and you should be fine for a few more spots. I would probably delete the file you exported from so you don't get confused about which file is your image file (just my personal preference not to have two files of the same image unless they are VCs).
Also, I find that exiting and re-starting LR every 5 or so images while in Develop module can help but that is huge pain.
Best of luck. I am patiently awaiting updates to fix this issues once and for all.
Jeff

Background applications bogging down the iphone?

Hey everyone, I am a brand new iphone user. I used to own an HTC 8515 and I recall that it kept applications running in the background and eventually it would start to eat up a lot of RAM. There was a task manager however where you could clear all running programs.
I have been lead to believe that the iphone does the same thing, yet there is no task manager function. I know that holding down the home button closes the app permanently, but is there a way to clear all running programs in the background?
Also, with running all the applications in the background, does this become a problem as far as the speed of the iphone etc? I just have this thing where I like to keep my apps closed and running everything smoothly.
Thanks in advance!

This has been all over the forum here. From apps crashing, from iPhones rebooting, and in your case, applications slowing down the iPhone, even known keyboard typing slowdown, opening of apps, etc. it all points to memory, or lack there of.
Holding down the "home" button is supposed to close the application. Holding down the "home" button and "standby" (top) button is supposed to reboot the device to clear out everything.
I can't say that all these things have been confirmed will work 100% of the time. As for myself, I try to close out 3rd party applications by holding down the "home" button and so far it has worked. However, when you are playing around with the phone, opening applications and closing it out , at some point you will bog down the device. Wait approximately 10 minutes and it clears itself out. At least that's what it is supposed to do and I have tested this and it does work.
The problem is that 10+ minutes is sometimes precious for me so rebooting is always an option.
So at this point in time, it's a known issue that everyone is addressing, now just cross your fingers and hope apple has a solution.

Is reinstalling Photoshop CS6 still OK? My #1 machine is bogging down in Bridge, and I would like to replace the old klunker on #2

Is reinstalling Photoshop CS6 still OK? My #1 machine is bogging down in Bridge, and I would like to replace the old klunker on #2

Larryt48503521 you are welcome to install Photoshop CS6 on a new computer. You can find details regarding the activation process at Activation & deactivation help - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-deactivation-products.html.

Too many docked ScriptUI panels bog down interface?

Has anyone else run into this problem? I have about 10 ScriptUI panels docked around my AE interface. It seems like when I select a layer, it can take 3-5 seconds for the Effect control palette to appear.
Do Script UI panels slow down the entire AE CS4 interface?

Navarro:
Having 10-12 ScriptUI panels docked is not known to cause a bog down of the application per se.
But it could be good performing a couple of tests.
For example, if you switch to a different workspace (also with the panels docked), do you still get this?
Does this happen with an empty (or nearly empty) project as well? Or it only happens when you have a lot of comps/viewers open?
If you switch to the "All panels" workspace (forget ScriptUI for a second), is it still slow?

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