[X4U] iphoto slowness

[Zane H. Healy]

I'm running the current version of iPhoto on a Dual G5 2Ghz system 
with 1.5GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.3.9, and it's reached the point 
it is basically unusable.

My iPhoto stats:
8355 Photo's shot with a combination of a Sony Mactiva, Sony 
Camcorder, Kodak DX6340, and Nikon D70 over the course of about 7 
years (almost everything in the last 2, and over half were shot with 
the Nikon).
iPhoto Library = 12.3GB
Library.iPhoto = 170.9MB

At 10:56 AM -0600 11/12/05, Nick Scalise wrote:
>If you hold down the Apple and Option keys when clicking on iPhoto 
>in the dock, it will ask you if you want to Rebuild various things 
>in iPhoto.
>
>That may improve your startup times.

This helped me a little, where it seemed to help the most was with 
the insane memory usage I was having.  At least now I can switch to 
another app eventually when iPhoto is running.  Prior to doing this, 
the computer would lock up solid and have to be powercycled if I 
tried to switch to a different app while running iPhoto!!!

As near as I can figure, one of my problems is that I need more RAM, 
a *LOT* more RAM.  I'm not sure if taking my system up to 3.5GB RAM 
would get me acceptable performance :^(  OTOH, I am fairly sure that 
going up to 3.5GB would resolve the rest of my performance issues.

		Zane


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