Lightroom grinds to a halt after 20 mins use

[Combat squirrel]

As title, using very latest 6.6.1, no matter what I try, clearing the cache, editing off all SSD's, setting larger cache, rendering 1:1 on import, edit 10mp or 22mp images............ after about 20 mins it goes from nippy editing of each image, then hop to the next image, edit, etc..........then just grinds to a halt, it then takes about 5 seconds to change images and several seconds to make any alteration to the image

It's my full time job and I have a lot to get through & I have no idea why its doing this now, the only fix is exit, reboot PC and launch and go again :/

ANY ideas folks ?

Specs are very high end all running off SSD (install, image data, cache, separate SSD's)

Intel 4930k @ 4.6ghz
1866mhz DDR3 32gb
980TI x2
Various Samsung 850 EVO's
6TB Toshiba long term storage drive
Running on my dell 3008WFP 2560x1600
Spyder 5 Elite
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

 

[Combat squirrel]

Interesting!!

Thanks very much will look into that - yeah tried without GPU and its *frustratingly* slow, but still quicker I suppose than when it starts slowing down, will give it a longer go.

Also a new catalogue for each batch ? :O do you mean every shoot you do ? :O

My catalogue is a few years old now, around 9.7gb in size unpacked, I suppose I could start a new one but not sure how feasible that would be, Id have to work out which set of weddings to kick off a new one - but for me id need at least 10 weddings or more in one catalogue, just 1 isn't particularly practical.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Hi John,

Thanks for the awesome write up ! Tons of info there, I am tempted to send Adobe this thread link - not that they care, but it really comes down to extremely sloppy programming, all those steps you have to take simply to edit and then still stop every 10 mins is very concerning for a pro tool, I am tempted to look at other options if I am to start another catalogue anyway.

I have a little experience with capture one pro 9, so may look into that.

Mean while I will form a decent action plan from your write up - many thanks again John, its hugely appreciated.