Very very high RAM usage!

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Peter Reichert

Hi, I registry always a very high RAM usage, which only results from Luminar 3 then using Luminar.
I have a RAM of 32GB and Luminar 3 uses nearly the whole of it; at least around 29GB!
Often I have to restart Luminar 3, cause I can't further work or can't store pictures.
But, after around only 5-10 minutes the RAM usage is again such high.

What causes the high RAM usage of Luminar 3?
I have around 5.000 photos in the Luminar 3 catalogue. I have not increased the number
since 2 weeks. Is the number of photos too high? Are were any routines working on the
catalogue?
Is the high RAM caused by my own pictures presets? I have around 30 own presets.

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    Jean-Christophe Dichant
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    I have no explanation for this but just checked my 53.000 photos catalog to compare.

    Luminar 3 takes 988 Mb from my 16Gb RAM W10 computer.

    Far from you.

    Something to check with support I guess.

     

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    Member

    Hello,

    I have the same problem on my computer.

    I have the impression that by browsing the folders the previews load in memory and are never unloaded. Suddenly the use of RAM increases, increases ... until the crash of Luminar.

    maybe this problem only occurs with the windows version ?

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    Angela Andrieux

    Hi Peter,

    Please contact us at www.skylum.com/support so we can investigate this issue. Thanks in advance!

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    Achim Boening

    Hi,
    Same problem with me
    Windows 10 32gb ram
    Just sent a request to support.
    Addidional frequently freezing luminar 3
    Any news to these points in this tread?
    Achim

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    Kate Williams

    Hi Achim, 

    We've detected a memory leak happening when you're toggling between photos in your gallery. This will be fixed in the update that's coming within a week, so I kindly invite you to try it out. 

    Our team will process your support request shortly in order to take a look at your particular case. 

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    Peter Reichert

    Hi again to my topic.


    After update to newest Luminar 3 version I have always such very high RAM usage. And I don't toggling between the different gallery folders. I work long times in one gallery folder in order to work on photos.
    There was no improvement on RAM usage. 

    From my 32GB total RAM space, Luminar 3 always uses in average 20GB of RAM. 
    My photo galleries are mostly "stable/constant"...means: my number of photos don't change often.
    And I use Luminar 3 for long time. 
    I have to reboot Luminar 3 after around 45-60 minutes new, cause exports takes too long or on one point the export freezes. 

    I hope, this would be latest solved with Luminar 4.

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    Anastasia Davis

    Hi Pete! Thanks for sharing this. We are working on a fix. We will do our best.

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    Kraken Photographic

    Hi, are we getting any closer to fixing this issue? I'm having the same problem with luminar taking up 24Gb of RAM within minutes of use.

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    Pascal Bieri

    Same here. Unable to work...Still no fix?

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    Elena Blum

    Hi,

    Our team is working right now to get this resolved and to ship the update.

    Please stay tuned! Thanks!

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    Ahmad J A Alnusif

    I think their dev team is busy with the impending v4 release and doesn't have time to tackle v3 issues now.

    That's why this issue is taking such a long time to address.

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    Pascal Bieri

    As long as v4 solves it, no problem with that😀

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    Elena Blum

    Hi @Ahmad ,

    Indeed, Luminar 4 release is really soon and we're trying to do it in the best way. However, we consider and plan the Updates for Luminar 3 too.

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    Ernest Caiko

    Hello!

    This problem is still exist. When next update is planned?

    Thank you very much

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    Kirk Osborn

    We're aware of the performance issues, and we're truly sorry if you encountered them.

    There will be an update meant to target these issues at the end of this year. Please stay tuned.

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