Lightroom Windows performance tips

Hey folks
Just thought I'd share a little performance tip: Defragmenting your catalog makes a really big difference. Sure, you could run the Windows Defragmenting tool, which takes care of the whole disk, but that takes forever to run. I use contig, a freebie command line tool from Sysinternal (technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx) and was surprised at how much it helped. It's also something you can do very quickly: my 200Mb catalog was heavily fragmented and I fixed that in about a minute. I'm pretty sure there are other, more user-friendly tools out there which do the same thing.
My machine is a 2.8GHz P4 (circa 2001) with 2Gb RAM, and I have a 12000+ image catalog in LR. Query speeds are very good, and working with the images is now entirely CPU-limited.
Back to lurking, now ...

Hi Carl,
Can you please log a bug for this.We will investigate the issue.
Thanks,
Asha
Adobe ColdFusion Team.

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제품 : ORACLE SERVER
작성날짜 : 2003-06-10
TIPS(49) : IMPORT PERFORMANCE TIPS
==================================
PURPOSE
[Import 의 Performance]
Oracle import를 실행 시 많이 걸리는 시간을 줄이기 위해 다음의 현상을
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==================================
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Reference Documents
none

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