Thinking of Upgrading to Lion and Aperture... any advice?
I hear about slowness issues as well as all kinds of other issues now that i look at the boards... ive always just played around with iPhoto but am now thinking I might want to go a lil deeper.... Any advice about upgrading to Lion and also upgrading to Aperture?....I shoot with a Cannon and us a Macbook Pro...
Ron wrote:
I'm using 8gb RAM with my 27" i7 iMac and I'm in the middle of much trouble with jerking pages, shifting pixel counts accompanied by page shift, and now I'm stuck with no Timeline use in FCPX.
If you are running Lion first upgrade to 10.7.2.
Please let us know how page outs test (see below) under normal workflow. Then retest in 32-bit mode and with a restart running only Aperture.
First thing is to evaluate whether or not you have adequate RAM by looking at the Page Outs number under System Memory on the Activity Monitor app before starting a typical Aperture work session; recheck after working and if the page outs change (manual calculation of ending page outs number minus starting page outs number) is not zero your workflow is RAM-starved. Ignore the pie charts and other info in Activity Monitor.
If your test showed that page outs increased significantly during operation you can
• add RAM
• and/or simply try to run Aperture by itself
• and/or switch from 64-bit operation to 32-bit operation (which will make some additional RAM space available).
HTH
-Allen Wicks
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