Laserjet 4200 bogs down

I have a user that prints large files to a 4200 connected locally. These files often are loaded with graphics (they are medical test results). For the first 5-6 pages it prints reasonably fast, not as fast as plain text, but good under the circumstances. After about the 6th page, though, it begins to slow down until it is going about 4 pages a minute. There is a long pause in between each page, then the page prints at a comparable speed to early, but there is this pause between each page.
I have updated the drivers (which actually seemed to make it worse), updated the firmware, increased the ram from 64 to 300+ mb, set it to the lowest res (600 dpi), changed the cable. Nothing seems to change. I realize graphics can slow things down, but this seems extreme. The user swears it wasn't like that before, which I have never witnessed.
Any ideas?

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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
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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
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r12: 0x00000001091df198 r13: 0x00007f8b604175e0 r14: 0x0000000109a89000 r15: 0x0000000109ec5000
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14
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0x107ecafff com.apple.SearchKit (1.4.0 - 1.4.0) <B9B8D510-A27E-36B0-93E9-17146D9E9045> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SearchK it.framework/Versions/A/SearchKit
0x107f0f000 -
0x107f6affb com.apple.AE (665.5 - 665.5) <BBA230F9-144C-3CAB-A77A-0621719244CD> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/AE.fram ework/Versions/A/AE
0x107f9e000 -
0x108067fff com.apple.LaunchServices (572.23 - 572.23) <8D955BDE-2C4C-3DD4-B4D7-2D916174FE1D> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchS ervices.framework/Versions/A/LaunchServices
0x1080df000 -
0x108108fff com.apple.DictionaryServices (1.2 - 208) <A539A058-BA57-35EE-AA08-D0B0E835127D> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Diction aryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices
0x108131000 -
0x108141fff libbsm.0.dylib (33) <2CAC00A2-1352-302A-88FA-C567D4D69179> /usr/lib/libbsm.0.dylib
0x10814c000 -
0x1081afff7 com.apple.SystemConfiguration (1.13 - 1.13) <F05F4149-981B-380B-8F50-51CE804BBB89> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
0x1081ed000 -
0x108445ff1 com.apple.security (7.0 - 55471) <233831C5-C457-3AD5-AFE7-E3E2DE6929C9> /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
0x10858f000 -
0x108679fff libsqlite3.dylib (158) <00269BF9-43BE-39E0-9C85-24585B9923C8> /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib
0x108690000 -
0x108777ff7 libxml2.2.dylib (26) <A1DADD11-89E5-3DE4-8802-07186225967F> /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
0x1087b0000 -
0x1087bdff7 libxar.1.dylib (202) <5572AA71-E98D-3FE1-9402-BB4A84E0E71E> /usr/lib/libxar.1.dylib
0x1087cb000 -
0x1087cffff libpam.2.dylib (20) <B93CE8F5-DAA8-30A1-B1F6-F890509513CB> /usr/lib/libpam.2.dylib
0x1087d7000 -
0x1087d7ffd libOpenScriptingUtil.dylib (157) <19F0E769-0989-3062-9AFB-8976E90E9759> /usr/lib/libOpenScriptingUtil.dylib
0x1087e2000 -
0x1087efff0 libbz2.1.0.dylib (29) <0B98AC35-B138-349C-8063-2B987A75D24C> /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib
0x1087f9000 -
0x1087fefff com.apple.DiskArbitration (2.6 - 2.6) <F8A47F61-83D1-3F92-B7A8-A169E0D187C0> /System/Library/Frameworks/DiskArbitration.framework/Versions/A/DiskArbitration
0x10880e000 -
0x108815fff com.apple.NetFS (6.0 - 4.0) <8E26C099-CE9D-3819-91A2-64EA929C6137> /System/Library/Frameworks/NetFS.framework/Versions/A/NetFS
0x10881f000 -
0x10882afff libkxld.dylib (2422.1.72) <C88EF3E6-B31F-3E12-BE9B-562D912BA733> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x108836000 -
0x108841ff7 com.apple.NetAuth (5.0 - 5.0) <C811E662-9EC3-3B74-808A-A75D624F326B> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NetAuth.framework/Versions/A/NetAuth
0x10884f000 -
0x108b4efff com.apple.Foundation (6.9 - 1056) <D608EDFD-9634-3573-9B7E-081C7D085F7A> /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
0x108d8c000 -
0x108d8dfff liblangid.dylib (117) <9546E641-F730-3AB0-B3CD-E0E2FDD173D9> /usr/lib/liblangid.dylib
0x108d96000 -
0x108db1ff7 libCRFSuite.dylib (34) <FFAE75FA-C54E-398B-AA97-18164CD9789D> /usr/lib/libCRFSuite.dylib
0x108dbd000 -
0x108e21ff3 com.apple.datadetectorscore (5.0 - 354.0) <9ACF24B8-3268-3134-A5BC-D72C9371A195> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DataDetectorsCore.framework/Versions/A/DataDe tectorsCore
0x108e67000 -
0x108e6afff com.apple.TCC (1.0 - 1) <32A075D9-47FD-3E71-95BC-BFB0D583F41C> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TCC.framework/Versions/A/TCC
0x108e71000 -
0x108e88fff com.apple.CFOpenDirectory (10.9 - 173.1.1) <3FB4D5FE-860B-3BDE-BAE2-3531D919EF10> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenDirectory.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFOpen Directory.framework/Versions/A/CFOpenDirectory
0x108ea7000 -
0x108eb1ff7 com.apple.bsd.ServiceManagement (2.0 - 2.0) <2D27B498-BB9C-3D88-B05A-76908A8A26F3> /System/Library/Frameworks/ServiceManagement.framework/Versions/A/ServiceManage ment
0x108ebc000 -
0x108ee4ffb libxslt.1.dylib (13) <C9794936-633C-3F0C-9E71-30190B9B41C1> /usr/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
0x7fff66cc6000 -
0x7fff66cf9817 dyld (239.3) <D1DFCF3F-0B0C-332A-BCC0-87A851B570FF> /usr/lib/dyld
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
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=======
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?

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