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How much can too many imports slow inititialization down?

How much can too many imports slow applet inititialization down?
I have seen our company's sorce code for some huge applets they have written. In many, many cases, the imports at the beginning of each file are written something like this...
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;Only certain portion of these imports are actually used. Does this sort of thing really impact the applets loading speed? I know it will obviously take at least a little longer but will the user even notice?

You are not actually importing the classes, but rather making the names of the classes available.

Aperture sometimes slow import slow reaction on highligts and shadows

1. Aperture sometimes, one out of three times perform a slow import from a compactflash card. Normally 10 images (nikon d-200 10 mb) in less than a minute. Sometimes the same ammount takes more than 5 minutes. Reconnecting the cardreader on the front usb connection solves the problem.
2. Using the sliders on highlights and shadows, the adjustment of image takes a little time, no instant reaction.
3. Aperture is installed on a 250 gb hd (first) (standard installation version 1.5.2). The data is installed on a second 500 gb internal drive. Drives never go to sleep. 4GB internal ram. Video card 7300 GT.
I have talked to different people about this performance issue and got different answers, which range from:
a. This is the best performance with aperture with the current system. If you want more buy a better video card.
b. Your video card is bad, mainly the vram. Replace the video card (warrenty still applicable).
Any views and advice from this forum?
Regards
iemke

Mac OS X 10.4.9 to boost image import speeds
By Prince McLean
Published: 09:35 AM EST
Apple this week dropped yet another pair of pre-release Mac OS X 10.4.9 builds on its developer crowd, inching the software closer to a public release.
The diligence with which the Cupertino-based company has been refining the software may signal that Mac OS X 10.4.9 will be the final maintenance update to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger before attention is drawn solely to Leopard.
As was the case with prior seeds, developer notes accompanying the latest builds -- 8P2132 (Intel) and 8P132 (PowerPC) -- are said to reflect no known issues with the software.
People familiar with the latest pre-release say Apple notes just one significant change since builds 8P2130 and 8P130 were issued last week, specifically a bug fix to ImageIO that was affecting image import speeds.
This is from Apple Insider.
Jeff

Why do big imports slow down?

Hi folks
So I have recently had to reimport my entire music collection off of an external, a couple of times.
I have noticed that the importing process seems to slow down at points, with some individual tracks taking aaaages to import. I can't tell if the import process itself is just generally slowing down for some reason related to memory or something (I am importing ~300GB in one hit), or if it has something to do with particular file formats, or perhaps even tagging.
I don't understand enough of iTunes' inner workings to figure this out myself so I would very much appreciate some insight into this matter from someone who does.
Thanks!

First of all, thank you for your contribution. You are right to say that I have no need in changing the AI Config every time that the loop runs. But as this is supposed to be a soft-scope, I need to be able to update the parameters associated with AI Start while the loop is running (e.g. trigger level).
I have tried to move the AI Config subVI out of both loops but the error as a result is: "No transfer in progress for the specified source."
I also need a sampling rate of exactly 96kHz. I realize that the laptop clock cannot attain this value. Do you know how I could get exactly 96kHz.
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Importing Slower on Intel iMac than Pentium 4 Laptop

I've had my Intel Dual-core iMac (2 GHz) for a couple of months now. What really annoys me about it is that Importing CDs to mp3 files (160 kbps) only proceeds at 3.2-6.0x speed whereas doing the same conversion on my sister's old Pentium 4 laptop proceeds at around 28.0x.
I phoned up Apple support and was told to trash the Caches folder in my Home folder. This helped for about a day but the import would still start at around 3.2x speed and then accelerate slowly up to 24.0x by around the 10th track on the CD. I have run a hardware check using the install DVD that came with the iMac and it did not report any problems with the superdrive. I have also repaired permissions on the hard drive and run the maintenance and cache cleaning scripts in Onyx but this doesn't seem to help. I understand that as the superdrive is only able to read CDs at a maximum of 24x the import is unlikely to be able to exceed this speed no matter how fast the processor is.
I keep my iTunes Library on an external firewire hard drive so as not to clog up my boot drive and it contains 5760 items, 22.32 GB. Could this be the reason for the slow down?
2 GHz Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 GB RAM, 256 MB ATI Radeon X1600

Your optical drive has more to do with this than your processor. The processor really only comes into play inasmuch as concerns the on-the-fly conversion/compression to MP3. It could well be that the MP3 encoder Apple uses is not as highly optimized for Apple hardware as it is for Windows. Actually, most lossy compressors run much more slowly on Macs than on PCs for similar reasons.
If the high-speed ripping is your ultimate goal as opposed to high-quality digital audio extraction, then I hope you find a permanent fix to this problem. I rip most of my CDs on my Windows machine with EAC because I want the most accurate rips possible, and even though my Plextor drive reads CDs at 52x, the actual ripping speed is generally about 5-7x because of my secure ripping configuration (all data is read multiple times, drive cache is flushed, etc.). The only way to achieve high-speed ripping is to completely ignore any kind of quality control measures.
If you disable (if applicable in your case) "Use error correction when reading audio CDs), you might be able to slightly increase your ripping speed, but again, there's the matter of MP3 encoding slowing things down anyway. You'd likely notice a substantial speed increase if you encoded directly to WAV or AIFF so no compression is being done as you rip.

Importing slowing down my computer

Whenever I import a cd now it takes much longer and slows down my whole computer. Songs and videos also skip while importing a cd. After importing everything is fine again. Does anyone know anything about this problem??

This could be two different issues.
When importing CDs change the program focus to another area like the library or mini store. This has worked for a lot of people to speed up importing with iTunes7.
As for the whole computer slowing down during import, it depends on computer. iTunes7 and new Quicktime seem to need more resources than older versions. You could try ripping CDs using another program if you are making mp3 files.

DAC import slow 795/795.1

All,
I'm importing DAC 7.9.5 repository and the import program is running very slow. From the log file, it seems that the inserts are being at 10rows/sec. I'm not sure if I missing any setting or anything we should do to improve the performance.
I'm running this process from DAC client windows based , db is oracle 10g and dac/informatica on solaris 10. I tried to create these tables manually using sql plus and its not taking that long. Why its taking 19 hrs to import DAC 795 repository. I also tried to bring oob 7951 repository and the issue remains same.
Any DAC settings I'm missing ..? Can I trigger this process from DAC server, if yes how..?
Thanks in advance
mr

Hi,
Yes it will take time coz if you select all the ERP while installing DAC then it will take time coz it will create all teh tables for all teh application (EBS, peoplesoft,Seibel etc)
For us when we installed and create repository for EBS only it took 3 hrs for us.
And if all the creation of repository sucess then u cannot say that u have missed any configuration or steps. !!!!!!!
And we cannot trigger any thing from DAC server, all work will be done through DAC Client.
Regards,
Tarang Jain

Why is import slow

iPhoto imports are very very slow.
Activity monitor does not report that the CPU is working very hard. What is happening and what can I do?

How big are the files? What are you importing from? How? How much Ram? How much free space on your disk? Anything else going on on your machine?

Import slow only if no media inserted

My lightroom 3.5 and also 3.6 incredibly slows down any GUI interaction when I am trying to import images as long as no external media like an SD card is inserted. As soon as I insert my SD card LR immediately has it's intended speed. Somebody can explain this to me?

Thank you for the answers. Maybe I did not explain myself correctly, English is not my language, but it did not solve my problem.
If I leave "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos" unchecked, the JPEG are not visible in the LR catalog, but the JPEG duplicate is still copied to the Catalog's folder with the RAW file.

Importing slow motion sequenze (848 x 480) from GoPro Hero 3 black edition in FC

How can I import a slow motion sequenz from my Hero GoPro black edition into Final Cut? The original has a resolution of 848 x 480. After the import Final Cut makes this sequenze a little bit larger (640 x 480), resulting that part of sharpness is lost.

When dropping the clip into the timeline for the first time, try setting the Video Properties Format to NTSC SD and Resolution to 720x480 DV Anamorphic. Clips of your resolution should fit and leave a bit of pillarboxing on the sides. To ensure you're playing it back at the best image quality, go to Playback Preferences, and set Playback Quality to High Quality.

Import metadata slow

Hi,
Could somebody please help me with a Warehouse Builder import problem?
After importing lots of objects into a new 10.2.0.1 repository, especially mappings, the import slows down for each object imported.
I'm importing the objects one by one via an Expert, and stopping & restarting between sets.
This worked fine for another environment (OT), but it doesn't work as well for the A.
This is a problem since we're importing 5621 objects, some 1200 mappings and the import time for 1 mapping is now 15 minutes.
So I've tried restarting OWB after importing a set of mappings (300), optimizing the repository, restarting the client pc, all didn't help.
My client pc is a windows XP Sp3, 2.33Ghz, 3.75 Gb Ram virtual machine. Currently Java is using 877K mem, the cpu is very busy all the time (avg. 90%)
The database is doing nothing, so it's probably a problem with my client.
I've got the max java setting in owbclient.bat on -Xmx768. I've tried -Xmx1024M but then OWB won't start because the physical memory isn't big enough.
I've also tried -Xmx512M - no difference.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Maarten

Some things that you can do is
1) check if the user that is doing the import has admin privileges..if not see if it helps after granting admin privileges.
2) try to gather stats on the design repos and see if it helps.
Note : 10.2.0.1 is a de-supported version ..time to upgrade maybe ??

Iphone 6 slow motion import

I am unable to import my slow motion into FCPX from my iphone 6. What it imports is standard 30 or 60 fps video that plays at normal speeds. I can't for the life of me figure out how to bring it in as a slow motion clip. I even imported it into iPhoto, where it plays as slow motion, then go look at it in the FCPX media browser for photos and it again plays at regular speed (not slow motion).
Can someone help me figure out how to import slow motion clips into FCPX from the iPhone 6?
Thanks!

There is a misconception about the "slow motion videos" in iPhone.
In fact, they *really* are videos recorded with a high frame rate (up to 240fps in iPhone 6).
They are *not* in slow motion per se - even though the iPhone software may play them as such.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that there is no such thing as slow motion videos. There are videos played in slow motion.
What happens when, say, you drop your 240fps video in a 24fps timeline, is that it plays at normal speed. This is as it should be!
The big deal is that, since your clip has all those extra frames in it, you can use FCP X to slow it down (up to 1/10 the original speed in my example) and it will use all the real frames the camera captured. Plus, you can use all the retiming features in FCP X to obtain perfectly smooth slow motion.
By means of comparison, if you slow down a video recorded at the same frame rate as the project it is in, FCP X has to make up extra frames that did not exist. Even though FCP X has some great algorithms for this (like "Optical Flow"), it can't match real captured frames.

Import running Very Slow!!!

Hi Guys,
This is in sequence with my first two posts...i'lll explain the whole scenario....
I have a 44 GB table on an Oracle DB 9.2.0.8. I first tried to truncate it but it was taking huge amount of time...
So, i truncated the table with:-
SQL> Truncate table TABLENB REUSE STORAGE;
After this i tried to Drop the table and it took approx 16-18 hrs to drop it. Now, i have started a import of the table using following command:-
imp schema/passwd
file=/oracle/XX/97/imp/TABLENB.1.exp,/oracle/XX/98/imp/TABLENB.2.exp,/oracle/XX/99/imp/TABLENB.3.exp log=/oracle/XX/97/exp/TABLENB.imp.log tables=TABLENB feedback=10000 indexes=N ignore=Y
It has taken 16 hrs till now and when i run the following query the output is as follows:-
SQL> select extents from dba_segments where segment_name='TABLENB';
EXTENTS
12450
Initially the table had about 1 million extents....
Can somebody tell, is dere any way i can speed up the import process or is dere any lock on the table which is making the import slow????
Regards,
Nick.
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Nick-- wud b DBA

Yeah Justin, u've recalled correctly.........
Unfortunately, as per the Pre-plan (Assigned to us by
someone else), we are importing back into the
Dictionary Managed Tablespace....... :-(I'd suggest talking to that "someone else" and figuring out why this is being done. Dropping a 1 million extent table from a DMT in 9.2 only to import that same table back into a DMT without even fixing the underlying extent allocation issue is a rather unfortunate plan. At some point, the right answer has to be to fix the plan rather than continuing to slog forward with a poorly conceived plan.
Do u have some suggestion for us so that the import
can be made faster if possible... or simply we have
to sit and wait......Quoting from my earlier reply-- "It would almost certainly be more efficient to pre-create the table with more appropriate extent sizes and then to import the data into that existing table"
Justin

Import Feature Request...

Having used Lightroom for sometime I have a feature request dealing with the
importing of images in to Lightroom.
I would like to see the ability to have Lightroom look at each image it
imports and based on where the image is dark, light or in the middle it
would apply a different preset to them. For example if Lightroom found that
60% of the pixels in the image was dark colors it would apply a preset that
I create for dark images that would lighten the image. If it found that 40%
of an image was light colors it would apply a preset I create that would
darken the image. If it found that 50% of the image was dark colors and 50%
were light colors it would apply a preset that I create that might up the
saturation and other things but not adjust the exposure any.
I would like to see the percentages that Lightroom uses to make these
decisions adjustable by the user. For example for an image to be considered
dark it would have to have 80% of the pixels dark, etc. I would also like to
see this feature be able to be turned on or off by the user (for those that
don't want to use it) as I realize this could slow the import process down.
And, while it would make the importing slower I think it would mean less
work for the user later.
Also, maybe instead of looking at all of the pixels in the image one by one
to make a decisions on how light or dark the image is it could simply create
a quick histogram and use that. It seems like histogram generation in
Lightroom is pretty fast and this may keep the import time down to something
that isn't so bad.
As it is right now, I see little point in having a preset applied to the
images I import as very seldom do all of the images I import in to Lightroom
would work with the same preset. I think a setup like this would cut down on
adjustments later.
Robert

The problem with the auto preset is that the current auto functions in
Lightroom just kind of suck. On all of the images I have used it on it blows
everything out and this is even on images that already have plenty blown
out. I have yet to see it darken an image.
I also want to point out I am not asking for an auto feature I am asking
that options be added that lets the user apply a preset (any preset they
want) to images that are too dark, too light and 50-50. This is a far cry
from the auto functions that are in LR now.
If you apply a preset to images that are dark and that preset ups the
Exposure to +1, etc. the chances are good that it will get your image much
close to what you want. Just like applying a preset that adjusts the
exposure to -1 on images that are very light. And, of course the user can
control the threshold that LR uses to decide if an image is light, dark or
50-50. You can also turn this off if you don't want to use it. There really
is nothing auto about my suggestion since the entire process is controlled
by the user. It just saves you time of waiting for an import to complete and
then going through your images manaully and apply a lightening and darkening
preset to the appropriate images.
Robert

LR import 2 card readers at the same time

It would speed up my workflow significantly if i could import from 2 card readers at the same time in LR, and import as DNG. As it stands now when I am really pressed for time I use the dng converter as an importer then import in place in LR. I would like to see one program in my workflow not 2 or some times 3.

8 GB of ram is enough but If when I replace my mac pro next month I am going to put in 32 GB of ram.
The whole point is to speed up the work flow. I have to create great images in very short amount of time every day. Today I had 1500 images and I had less than one hour to get the images out and I did not have the time to convert to DNG on import. Coverting to DNG on import slows the process down. So does importing from one card at a time. I have to go back and replace the CR2 files with DNGs on the server tomorrow. Like Seth Resnick says “workflow not slow flow”.

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