Vista 64bit and PS CS4 - Poor Performance
I have been having a terrible time with CS4 and my 64bit system. I mostly work with files in the 1-2MB range, not large by any means. I will process 2 or 3 photos, and close them.. no problem. But every 3rd or 4th photo, when I open the file, or try to resize/crop it, I get the dreaded "not responding" message and end up waiting 30 seconds to a minutes for PS to come back alive. Obviously this is extremely disruptive to my workflow.
I have gone so far as to wipe my system clean, but still experience the same problem. It is a fairly consistent issue that always happens when I process multiple photos.
Anyone else experiencing similar problems? Is there some obvious solution I am missing?
My specs are as follows..
Intel iCore 7 2.66 Mhz
9GB DDR3
ATI Radeon 4850 512MB
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
PS CS4 Extended (with 11.1 update)
Thanks,
Brian
What Memory % do you have allocated in Edit > Preferences > Performance?
Which is your primary scratch drive?
You could try resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.
This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.
A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.
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Here is my server configuration:
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RAM: 64GB
Processor: Intel I7 Gen 3
NICS: 2 X Intel I350-T2 Adapters, supporting SRIOV/VMQ
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Storage:
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# Script: Configure Hyper-V
# Version: 1.0.2
# Description: Configures the Hyper-V Virtual Switch and
# Creates a Converged Fabric
# Version 1.0.0: Initial Script
# Version 1.0.1: Added the creation of SrIOV based VM Switches
# Version 1.0.2: Added parameters to give the NLB a name, as well as the Hyper-V Switch
param
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]$TeamAdapterName="",
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]$SwitchName="",
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
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$ManagmentOS2IPv4="10.250.251.5"
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$ManagmentDNS1="10.150.250.1"
$ManagmentDNS2="10.150.250.3"
$ManagmentDNS3="10.250.251.1"
$ManagmentDNS4="10.250.251.3"
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$CSV2IPv4="10.250.100.1"
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catch [Exception]
throw "$_" | Add-Content $LogPath
I would really like to know why I'm getting absolutely poor performance. Any help on this would be most appreciated.I didn't parse the entire script, but a few things stand out.
SR-IOV and teaming don't mix. The purpose of SR-IOV is to go straight from the virtual machine into the physical adapter and back, completely bypassing the entire Hyper-V virtual switch and everything that goes with it. Team or SR-IOV.
You're adding DNS servers to adapters that don't need them. Inbound traffic is going to be confused, to say the least. The only adapter that should have DNS addresses is the management adapter. For all others, you should run Set-DnsClient -RegisterThisConnectionsAddress
$false.
I don't know that I'm reading your script correctly, but it appears you have multiple adapters set up for management. That won't end well.
It also looks like you have QoS weights that total over 100. That also won't end well.
I don't know that these explain poor performance like you're describing, though. It could just be that you're a victim of network adapters/drivers that have poor support for VMQ. Bad VMQ is worse than no VMQ. But, VMQ+teaming+SR-IOV sounds like recipe for
heartache to me, so I'd start with that.
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INSERT INTO WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES ( ITEM_TYPE, ITEM_KEY, NAME, TEXT_VALUE,
NUMBER_VALUE, DATE_VALUE ) SELECT :B1 , :B2 , WIA.NAME, WIA.TEXT_DEFAULT,
WIA.NUMBER_DEFAULT, WIA.DATE_DEFAULT FROM WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTES WIA WHERE
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0 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTES_PK' (INDEX (UNIQUE))
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Execute 1 0.00 0.10 10 27 136 25
Fetch 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
total 2 0.00 0.10 10 27 136 25So I'm struggling to understand why the performance on the 10.2.0.4 RAC system is so much worse for this query, and why it's doing so many gets. Suggestions, thoughts, ideas welcomed.
I've verified system level things - CPUs weren't/aren't max'd out, no significant paging/swapping activity, run queue not long. AWR report for the time period shows nothing unusual.
further info on the objects concerned:
query source table :
WF_Item_Attributes_PK : unique index on Item_Type, Name. Index has 144 blocks, non-partitioned
WF_Item_Attributes tbl : non-partitioned, 160 blocks
insert destination table:
WF_Item_Attribute_Values:
range partitioned on Item_Type, and hash sub-partitioned on Item_Key
both executions of the insert hit the partition with the most data : 127,691 blocks total ; 8 sub-partitions with 15,896 to 16,055 blocks per sub-partition.
WF_Item_Attribute_Values_PK : unique index on columns Item_Type, Item_Key, Name. Range/hash partitioned as per table.
Bind values:
exe #1 : Item_Type (:B1) = OEOH, Item_Key (:B2) = 1048671
exe #2 : Item_Type (:B1) = OEOL, Item_Key (:B2) = 4253168
number of rows in WF_Item_Attribute_Values for Item_Type = OEOH : 1132587
number of rows in WF_Item_Attribute_Values for Item_Type = OEOL : 18763670
The non-RAC 10.2.0.3 test system (clone of Production from last night) has higher row counts for these 2.
thanks and regards
Ivanhi Sven,
Thanks for your input.
1) I guess so, but I haven't lifted the lid to delve inside the form as to which one. I don't think it's the cause though, as I got poor performance running the insert statement with my own value (same statement, using my own bind value).
2) In every execution plan I've seen, checked, re-checked, it uses a range scan on the primary key. It is the most efficient I think, but the source table is small in any case - table 160 blocks, PK index 144 blocks. So I think it's the partitioned destination table that's the problem - but we only see this issue on the 10.2.0.4 pre-production (RAC) system. The 10.2.0.3 (RAC) Production system doesn't have it. This is why it's so puzzling to me - the source table read is fast, and does few gets.
3) table storage details below - the Item_Types being used were 'OEOH' (fast execution) and 'OEOL' (slow execution). Both hit partition WF_ITEM49, hence I've only expanded the subpartition info for that one (there are over 600 sub-partitions).
============= From DBA_Part_Tables : Partition Type / Count =============
PARTITI SUBPART PARTITION_COUNT DEF_TABLESPACE_NAME
RANGE HASH 77 APPS_TS_TX_DATA
1 row selected.
============= From DBA_Tab_Partitions : Partition Names / Tablespaces =============
Partition Name TS Name High Value High Val Len
WF_ITEM1 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'A1' 4
WF_ITEM2 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'AM' 4
WF_ITEM3 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'AP' 4
WF_ITEM47 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'OB' 4
WF_ITEM48 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'OE' 4
WF_ITEM49 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'OF' 4
WF_ITEM50 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'OK' 4
WF_ITEM75 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'WI' 4
WF_ITEM76 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 'WS' 4
WF_ITEM77 APPS_TS_TX_DATA MAXVALUE 8
77 rows selected.
============= From dba_part_key_columns : Partition Columns =============
NAME OBJEC Column Name COLUMN_POSITION
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES TABLE ITEM_TYPE 1
1 row selected.
PPR1 sql> @q_tabsubpart wf_item_attribute_values WF_ITEM49
============= From DBA_Tab_SubPartitions : SubPartition Names / Tablespaces =============
Partition Name SUBPARTITION_NAME TS Name High Value High Val Len
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3326 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3328 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3332 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3331 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3330 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3329 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3327 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
WF_ITEM49 SYS_SUBP3325 APPS_TS_TX_DATA 0
8 rows selected.
============= From dba_part_key_columns : Partition Columns =============
NAME OBJEC Column Name COLUMN_POSITION
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES TABLE ITEM_KEY 1
1 row selected.
from DBA_Segments - just for partition WF_ITEM49 :
Segment Name TSname Partition Name Segment Type BLOCKS Mbytes EXTENTS Next Ext(Mb)
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3332 TblSubPart 16096 125.75 1006 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3331 TblSubPart 16160 126.25 1010 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3330 TblSubPart 16160 126.25 1010 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3329 TblSubPart 16112 125.875 1007 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3328 TblSubPart 16096 125.75 1006 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3327 TblSubPart 16224 126.75 1014 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3326 TblSubPart 16208 126.625 1013 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES @TX_DATA SYS_SUBP3325 TblSubPart 16128 126 1008 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3332 IdxSubPart 59424 464.25 3714 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3331 IdxSubPart 59296 463.25 3706 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3330 IdxSubPart 59520 465 3720 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3329 IdxSubPart 59104 461.75 3694 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3328 IdxSubPart 59456 464.5 3716 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3327 IdxSubPart 60016 468.875 3751 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3326 IdxSubPart 59616 465.75 3726 .125
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES_PK @TX_IDX SYS_SUBP3325 IdxSubPart 59376 463.875 3711 .125
sum 4726.5
[the @ in the TS Name is my shortcode, as Apps stupidly prefixes every ts with "APPS_TS_"]
The Tablespaces used for all subpartitions are UNIFORM extent mgmt, AUTO segment_space_management ; LOCAL extent mgmt.regards
Ivan -
Story
I've been using arch for the past four months, dual booting with my old Windows XP. As I'm very fond of Flash games and make my own programs with a cross-platform language, I've found few problems with the migration. One of them was the Adobe Flash Player performance, which was stunningly bad. But everyone was saying that was normal, so I left it as is.
However, one special error always worried me: a seemingly randomly started siren sound coming from the motherboard speaker. Thinking it was a alarm about some fatal kernel error, I had been solving it mostly with reboots.
But then it happened. While playing a graphics intensive game on Windows quickly after rebooting from Arch, the same siren sound started. It felt like a slap across the face: it was not a kernel error, it was an motherboard overheat alarm.
The Problem
Since the computer was giving overheat signs, I started looking at things from another angle. I noticed that some tasks take unusually long times in Arch (i.e.: building things from source; Firefox / OpenOffice startup; any graphics intensive program), specially from the Flash Player.
A great example is the game Penguinz, that runs flawlessly in Windows but is unbearably slow in Arch. So slow that it alone caused said overheat twice. And trying to record another flash game's record using XVidCap things went so bad that the game halved the FPS and started ignoring key presses.
Tech Info
Dual Core 3.2 processor
1 gb RAM
256 mb Geforce FX 5500 video card
Running Openbox
Using proprietary NVIDIA driver
TL;DR: poor performance on some tasks. Flash Player is so slow that overheats CPU and makes me cry. It's fine on Windows.
Off the top of my head I can think up some reasons: bad video driver, unwanted background application messing up, known Flash Player performance problems and Actionscript Linux/Arch-only bug.
Where do you think is the problem?jwcxz wrote:Have you looked at your process table for any program with abnormal CPU usage? That seems like the logical place to start. You shouldn't be getting poor performance in anything with that system. I have a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo and an Intel GMA 965 and I've never had any problems with Flash. It's much better than it used to be.
Pidgin scared me for a while because it froze for no apparent reason. After fixing this, the table contains this two guys here:
%CPU
Firefox: 80%~100%
X: 0~20%
Graphic intensive test, so I think the X usage is normal. It might be some oddity at the Firefox+Linux+Flash sum, maybe a conflict. I'll try another browser.
EDIT:
Did a Javascript benchmark to test both systems and browsers.
Windows XP + Firefox = 4361.4ms
Arch + Firefox = 5146.0ms
So, it's actually a lot slower without even taking Flash into account. If someone knows a platform-independent benchmark to test both systems completely, and not only the browser, feel free to point out.
I think that something is already wrong here and the lack of power saving systems only aggravated the problem, causing overheat.
EDIT2:
Browser performance fixed: migrated to Midori. Flash stills slower than on Windows, but now it's bearable. Pretty neat browser too, goes better with the Arch Way. It shouldn't fix the temperature, however.
Applied B's idea, but didn't test yet. I'm not into the mood of playing flash games for two straight hours today.
Last edited by BoppreH (2009-05-03 04:25:20) -
Invalid block count and poor performance
Hi - Can anyone help?
Running an early 2011 13' MBP on ML. For a year - 18 months I've noticed poor performance at times, consistently slow boot (sometimes 5 minutes to usable), occasional lockups and spotlight often reindexes itself and slows the system (much more than my previous MBP), I can't see anything that triggers it. I'm also getting recurring errors in Disk Utility of 'Invalid block count', every time I'll repair the disk (booting into recovery), but after a month of use the error will reappear. About three months ago I erased and reinstalled ML, some of my data was moved over in Time Machine but I didn't restore from it. The erase and reinstall hasn't made any difference and I'm still seeing the same issues. Hard disk SMART status appears to be fine.
Can anyone recommend any troubleshooting steps? I'm not sure what else to do, still under Applecare and was thinking maybe the HD isn't working correctly?
Cheers!Performance.
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Safari hangs and poor performance in MBPR (Mid 2012)
Safari hangs and poor performance in MBPR (Mid 2012)? OS X 10.10.2 is up to date
Please answer as many of the following questions as you can. You may already have answered some of them. In that case, there's no need to repeat the answers.
Back up all data before making any changes.
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If your browser is Safari, then from the Safari menu bar, select
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If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, select the Advanced tab in the Preferences window and uncheck the box marked
Stop plug-ins to save power
Any change?
Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
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Are any other web browsers installed, and are they the same? What about other Internet applications, such as iTunes and the App Store?
If other browsers and Internet applications are also affected, follow these instructions and test. Any change?
If Parental Controls is active for any user, please turn it off and test. Any change?
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Crashing and poor performance during playback of a large project.
Hi,
I've been a regular user of iMovie for about 3 years and have edited several 50GB+ projects of DV quality footage without too many major issues with lag or 'dropped frames'. I currently have a 80GB project that resides on a 95% full 320GB Firewire 400 external drive that has been getting very slow to open and near impossible to work with.
Pair the bursting-at-the-seams external drive, with an overburdened 90% full internal drive - the poor performance wasn't to be unexpected. So I bought a 1TB Firewire 400 drive to free up some space on my Mac. My large iTunes library (150GB) was the main culprit and it was quickly moved onto the new drive.
The iMovie project was then moved onto my Mac's movie folder - I figured that the project needs some "room" to work (not that I really understand how Macs use memory) and that having roughly 80GB free with 1.5GB RAM (which is more than used to have) would make everything just that much smoother.
Wrong.
The project opened in roughly the same amount of time - but when I tried to play back the timeline, it plays like rubbish and then after 10-15 secs the Mac goes into 'sleep' mode. The screen goes off, the fans dies down and the 'heartbeat' light goes on. A click of the mouse 'wakes' the Mac only to find that if i try again, I get the same result.
I've probably got so many variables going on here that it's probably hard to suggest what the problem might be but all I could think of was repairing permissions (which I did and none needed it).
Stuck on this. Anyone have any advice?I understand completely, having worked with a 100 GB project once. I found that getting a movie bloated up to that size was just more difficult with jerky playback.
I do have a couple of suggestions for you.
You may need more than that 80GB free space for this movie. Is there any reason you cannot move it to the 1TB drive? If you have only your iTunes on it, you should have about 800 GB free.
If you still need to have the project on your computer's drive, set your computer to never sleep.
How close to finishing editing are you with this movie? If you are nearly done except for adding audio clips, you can export (share) it as QuickTime Full Quality movie. The resultant quicktime version of your iMovie will be smaller because it will contain only the clips actually used in the movie, not all the saved whole clips that iMovie keeps as its nondestructive editing feature. The quicktime movie will be one continuous clip, incorporating all your edits and added audio. It CAN be further edited, but you cannot change text of titles already there, or change transitions or remove already added audios.
I actually do this with nearly every iMovie. I create my movies by first importing videos, then adding still photos, then editing with titles, effects and transitions. I add audio last, and if it becomes too distorted in playback, I export the movie and then continue adding audio clips.
My 100+ GB movie slimmed down to only 8 GB with this method. (The large size was due to having so many clips. The movie was from VHS footage of my son's little league all-star game, and the video had so many skipped segments that I had to split it into thousands of clips to remove the dropped ones. Very old VHS tape!).
I haven't upgraded to QT 7.5.5, but I heard that the jerky playback issue is mostly resolved with this new upgrade. I am in mid-project with about 5 iMovies, so I will probably plod along with my work-around method, not wanting to upgrade in the middle of any of them.
Hope this is helpful to you.
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