Slow picture handling

Anybody notice graphics handling being very slow on SL, other than the problem with slow animations dicussed extensively here in another thread?
I noticed 1) the JPEG rotate -function in Expression Media 2 turned out to be very very slow compared to Leopard, and 2) the Picture transfer App was very slow deleting shots from a connected card/camera.
These are so essential functions to me I decided to downgrade again to Leopard. It was considerably harder than upgrading btw but now everything works swiftly again.
Somebody knows about when/if this can be fixed?

That's more than the needed difference. If a third party developer doesn't develop exactly the specs that Apple followed for USB, which are industry standard, any refinement for improvements to follow the existing specs on Apple's side will make their hardware out of sync with Apple's software. An operating system update would make that more evident. Whether Apple followed these specs because more devices have certain power sensitivity, or formatting, it is unknown. But as far as data reading from a camera media reader, I've seen no difference with my reader going to Snow Leopard. Thus the only thing that has changed in this argument is that you are using an out of spec reader, or one that needs an updated firmware, or somewhere another USB device is interfering with the data transfer. Regardless, unless you know all third party software or hardware developers have tested for 10.6 that you use, and you have an application which needs it, you shouldn't be updating to 10.6.
It is time to isolate the exact cause and make sure everything you use is in sync with the operating system. If it isn't, you took the necessary step of downgrading.

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Hi Everyone!
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Thank you so much for any help!!!!!

For sure max out your RAM and hard drive space to start, and never let drives exceed 70% full. Also always use a fast card reader copying to an external hard drive to move image files from the camera; avoid transfers direct from camera.
I feel pretty strongly that card-to-Aperture or camera-to-Aperture handling of original images puts originals at unnecessary risk. I suggest this workflow, first using the Finder (not Aperture) to copy images from CF card to computer hard drive:
• Remove the memory card from the camera and insert it into a memory card reader. Faster readers and faster cards are preferable.
• Finder-copy images from memory card to a labeled folder on the intended permanent Masters location hard drive.
• Eject memory card.
• Burn backup hard drive or DVD copies of the original images (optional strongly recommended recommended backup step).
• Eject backup hard drive(s) or DVDs.
• From within Aperture, import images from the hard drive folder into Aperture selecting "Store files in their current location." This is called "referenced images." During import is the best time to also add keywords, but that is another discussion.
• Review pix for completeness (e.g. a 500-pic shoot has 500 valid images showing in Aperture).
• Reformat memory card in camera, and archive originals off site on hard drives and/or on DVDs.
Note that the "eject" steps above are important in order to avoid mistakenly working on removable media/backups.
Also note with a Referenced-Masters Library that use of the "Vault" backup routine backs up the Library only, not the Masters. Masters should be separately backed up, IMO a good thing from a workflow and data security standpoint.
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Hannu,
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Greetings Isaac,
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hi
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Attached is a VI which resizes a 2D array (7.0) . It was designed to resize pictures and for pictures of your size it should be fast enough. I don't think webcams use 24 bit color, so you may have to make some modifications. Also, it doesn't do any "clever" stuff like averaging color values. It just takes some of the elements from the original, which seems to be good enough.
From what I saw, this VI gets slow when handling large arrays (I saw about a second for a 2800x1500). Does anyone have any optimizations ideas? I know that when windows creates thumbnails it also takes time, so I'm not too optimistic.
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Hi,
I bought a 2010 Alum Mac Mini (2.4Ghz/2GB/320GB/OS10.6.4) a couple months ago, and I restored it from a time machine backup from my old '08 Mac Mini (1.83ghz/2GB/OS10.6.4). All data moved successfully, but this machine seems 2x slower than my old Mac Mini.
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ypnos wrote:
Thank you all very much for your very valuable input!
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Slow JMS Performance

          Hi,
          I'm using WL7.1 SP2 for a JMS based application. The database is SQLServer 2000,
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No problem.
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          Richard Kenyon wrote:
          > Thanks Tom,
          >
          > I suspected (and hoped!) that this would be the answer. I just needed
          > clarification that I wasn't being stupid :-)
          >
          > I'll have a look at the Performance guide you mentioned.
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          > Thanks,
          > Richard Kenyon
          > EDS - UK
          >
          > "Tom Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > news:[email protected]...
          >
          >>When the application is active, it is forcing the server to do
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          >>I suggest you read the JMS Performance
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          >>
          >>Tom
          >>
          >>Richard Kenyon wrote:
          >>
          >>>Hi,
          >>>
          >>>I'm using WL7.1 SP2 for a JMS based application. The database is
          >>
          > SQLServer 2000,
          >
          >>>and the JMS queues are persistent on this DB.
          >>>
          >>>A client outside the Weblogic Server connects and fires lots of JMS
          >>
          > messages to
          >
          >>>the application. These messages are consumed by a pool of MDB's.
          >>>
          >>>I don't think it's performing as well as it could.
          >>>
          >>>For example, if I un-deploy my application, and fire 80,000 JMS messages
          >>
          > at the
          >
          >>>server, it takes around 10 minutes to persist these messages to the
          >>
          > queues. All
          >
          >>>good so far.
          >>>
          >>>However, with the application deployed, the same number of messages take
          >>
          > around
          >
          >>>3 hours. The messages are consumed and processed as fast as they can be
          >>
          > persisted
          >
          >>>to the JMS queue. It's almost as if the messages are being synchronysly
          >>
          > put on
          >
          >>>the queue, ie. control is not returned to the client until the message
          >>
          > is consumed
          >
          >>>and processed. Unless I'm misunderstanding this, as soon as the messages
          >>
          > is successfully
          >
          >>>persisted to the JMS queue, control should be passed back to the client.
          >>>
          >>>What I'd expect to happen is that the client would take around the same
          >>
          > time post
          >
          >>>the messages to the JMS Queue, ie. about 10 minutes - and the Pending
          >>
          > Message
          >
          >>>count to increase on the WL Server. Once all 80,000 messages were on the
          >>
          > queue,
          >
          >>>the Pending Message count would gradually go down as the messages were
          >>
          > processed.
          >
          >>>If I'm misunderstanding the way this works, please let me know. If you
          >>
          > need any
          >
          >>>further info, please ask and I'll post the answers.
          >>>
          >>>Thanks,
          >>>Richard Kenyon
          >>>EDS - UK
          >>>
          >>
          >
          >

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Are the two Focusrite interfaces hardware clock locked?
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