iPhoto overloaded (was Re: [X4U] Apple Aperture target Audience?)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 12:54 PM -0400 10/20/05, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>On 20/10/05 11:39 AM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>>  Though I wonder how well it will handle an image library the size of
>>  mine.  I'm up to about 11GB of images (~8000), and iPhoto is having
>>  serious issues with handling the load.  Basically on a G5 2x2 with
>  > 1.5GB RAM, it's now the only thing that can be running when I use it.

>Is there an alternative to iPhoto that is faster? I've got over 10,000
>photos and it is painfully slow. I heard iPhoto collects a lot of data about
>a photo such as it's size and other info and that's why it runs slow. Not
>totally clear on that. Anyway I don't need it to do that. I just want
>something to show me what I have with speed. There's an Adobe PC only app
>Album is there some Mac alternative?

The problem seems to be iPhoto loading a massive amount of 
information into RAM, I think the reason why it gets so slow is that 
it's having to swap to disk.  Once I close out of iPhoto (assuming 
the machine doesn't crash/lock up first), I suddenly have about 
3/4th's of my 1.5GB Physical RAM free.

A related question would be, is there anything that can be done to 
speed up (tune up) iPhoto?

		Zane


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