Import crashes every 1000 photos or so

Question

This is beyond frustrating. I have a drive with about 25,000 DNG files. When I attempt to import them, in-place, Lightroom starts the process and gradually slows down, eventually just disappearing after about one to two hours. It gets about 1000 images in and then just disappears - crashing, of course, but without even a diagnostic. Just... *poof*
And if I try to actually USE Lightroom while it's importing, the breadcrumb line that shows the path/folder to the image never changes from the first image shown, and within about 5 or 6 loupe views starts doing the well-known blank image with "Out of Memory" printed on the side.
I PAID $200 FOR USELESS SOFTWARE.
No, I'm NOT happy about it.
Is there *ANY* indication from Adobe as to why these bugs, which were KNOWN IN THE BETA were allowed into released software? Is there *ANY* indication from Adobe as to when I can expect a fix for this?

Answer 1

Oh man, you must be jocking. Lightroom makes an
extraordinary fatal, uniquely dramatically bad job in terms of resource management. Their coding seems to be a hasty, clumsy work, with disregard of algorithmic complexity and good coding practices.
Some statistics about this resource robbery and abuse is on: http://www.pbase.com/phototalk_thh/lightroom1_rawshooter
Photography is by hobby, albeit I do this for 30 years. Contrary to this, software architecture and design is my life, passion and profession. I rarely saw something as bad as Lightroom. However: hear hear, see the message in this forum, which someone send about dropping Apple Aperture and moving to Lightroom. As is seems, abuse may have its gradation levels as well. There someone has encountered an even worse case, by a margin according to his numbers.
Anyway, performance can be improved, and I hope that Adobe will address these issues seriously.