How to tell an application is "sucking" up the computer resource?

[DMKAlex]

I was doing a major clean up of my portfolio in LRC which involves a lot of deleting (both from the catalog and the hard disk). I also took the opportunity and the time to put keywords to the images.

I have noticed that after doing a few batches, my computer started to slow down which was evidenced by the thumbnails in grid mode taking a lot longer to refresh. The images was blurry and the flag in each of the thumbnail that indicate the keyword assignment is not refreshing.

Yet, I went in task manager and I coouldn't see anything (cpu, gpu, memory, disks) is working at any high capacity.

Restarting LRC would solve the problem but it will happen again after a few batches.

I am pretty sure my operation is sucking up the resource which caused the slow down.

I have a relatively powerful computer (Ryzen 7 3800x, GTX 1060, 32 mb DRAM). The program is in M.2 SSD and the data is in an internal hard drive.

How do I find out what's being tied down?

 

[XiaoDeer]

Task Manager is the primary tool. It usually provides at least a hint of where the problem lies.

One thing it won't reveal... if a process or thread is holding onto a "lock" that prevents other programs/processes/threads from doing their thing.

A couple of things to check:

* Optimize the LR Catalog

* Temporarily disable any sync to cloud or other systems enabled within LR or externally. Re-enable when you have completed all of these updates.

 

[Awkward_Swine]

I was doing a major clean up of my portfolio in LRC which involves a lot of deleting (both from the catalog and the hard disk). I also took the opportunity and the time to put keywords to the images.

I have noticed that after doing a few batches, my computer started to slow down which was evidenced by the thumbnails in grid mode taking a lot longer to refresh. The images was blurry and the flag in each of the thumbnail that indicate the keyword assignment is not refreshing.

Yet, I went in task manager and I coouldn't see anything (cpu, gpu, memory, disks) is working at any high capacity.

Restarting LRC would solve the problem but it will happen again after a few batches.

I am pretty sure my operation is sucking up the resource which caused the slow down.

I have a relatively powerful computer (Ryzen 7 3800x, GTX 1060, 32 mb DRAM). The program is in M.2 SSD and the data is in an internal hard drive.

How do I find out what's being tied down?

Use Resource Monitor "resmon.exe" in Windows for a cross-resource view of an applications impact. You can sort by average Cpu, total bytes read/written to storage, memory or network use. If you check a specific process, it will pin and show that across all views exclusively. It's old enough that it does not include GPU, but task manager has added that view.

This is a much more useful tool than Task manager to see what is actually going on.