Why Aperture 3.2.1 slow on 10.7.2?

Have delete pllist, cleared caches, delete and rebuilt thumbs and previews.  According to Activity Monitor, Aperture typically ***** up about 1Gb of memory.  I currently have ~4K images that takes up just shy of 1Gb hard drive space. 
Currently run Mac OS X (10.7.2) on iMac 3.06 GHz i3; 4GB 1333 MHz. 
When I'm editing images, it takes 4-5 seconds for the image to load (I typical work in full screen).  If I crop the image while the spinning loading wheel is going, then the screen goes to black until it's done loading.   When done cropping (or using a brush), it will take a 4-5 seconds to process that.  In SL, I didn't have this issue.
Any ideas?  I can't image the upgrade from 10.6.x to 10.7.x would require another 4GB RAM.

John Wallace3 wrote:
...I can't image the upgrade from 10.6.x to 10.7.x would require another 4GB RAM.
OS versions and app versions usually evolve to use more RAM and system resources as RAM gets cheaper and hardware gets stronger. Basic tech evolution, a good thing. 10.7 typically does require more RAM than 10.6.
Add RAM. 4 GB is marginal. Drives slow as they fill so verify that all hard drives are no more than approx. 70% full as a guideline. Even less full is better.
You can 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 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 page ins, the pie charts and other info in Activity Monitor.
If your test shows that page outs increase at all during operation it is affecting performance. You can
• add RAM as feasible
• and/or simply try to run only one app at a time, for sure diligently closing unneeded apps like browsers
• and/or switch 64-bit operation to 32-bit operation (which will make some additional RAM space available). Note that your Mac may already default to 32-bit. See Switching Kernels:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773%5DMac%20OS%20X%20v10.6:%20Starting%20up%20wit h%20the%2032-bit%20or%2064-bit%20kernel
Note that RAM is cheap and heavy apps' usage of more RAM is a good thing.
HTH
-Allen

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