sans dieu rien

CPU Usage > 100%? hehheh.

Snow Leopard was delivered right on the dot yesterday and I’ve been giving it a whirl. As expected, the system apps are a fair bit faster, and everything feels quite a bit more responsive. But I digress.

While doing a mass export of photos from Lightroom 2.0, I noticed that the fans had wound up quite a bit, so I poked into the Activity Monitor (somewhat like Windows’ Task Manager).

Lo and behold, I found Lightroom using well over 100% of the CPU! So… what’s up? Is there some secret sauce in Snow Leopard, or has the Activity Monitor gone bonkers?

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 at 1:22 am and is filed under Computers and all things Geek., Photography. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

«
»

2 Responses to “CPU Usage > 100%? hehheh.”

  1. Amelia aka MeLa de Gypsie Says:
    September 1st, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    well, it’s true that Lightroom does take up a TON of activity on macs for some strange reason. It makes the rest of my apps lag like no tomorrow, so now I’ve learnt the lesson of only running Lightroom and I’ve been bringing my laptop home to use the net on while editing photos… not the most ideal situation to be in… but I guess so far it works…

  2. Dale Says:
    September 1st, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    lol … well yeah, that happens a fair bit with LR. Maybe you can soup-up your RAM? I think going from 2GB to 4GB is fairly inexpensive these days.

Leave a Reply