trevorc Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 When I'm using AP to edit consecutive pictures, I don't tend to dismiss one picture before moving onto the next. As a result it is not unusual for me to have 8 or 9 tabs showing at any one time. My noisy fan drew my attention to the fact that my CPU usage was ever increasing. Closing down each tab one at a time produced a relative drop in CPU usage until falling to low level with the final shut down and a fan back to normal. Is this a warning to me to close tabs before moving on? Does this mean that that AP is swallowing resources even on dormant edits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hi Trevorc, in general it is a best practice to close unneeded tabs in any application, e.g. browser or Photo. Browsers recently introduced methods to „pause“ inactive tabs to avoid draining cpu (and battery). Never the less, open tabs consume memory (RAM) and lack of memory can severely degrade performance by forcing the OS to start using pagefile / swap on disk. I don’t know if Photo is able to „pause“ inactive tabs, but windows may require to spent cpu cycles for tabs which are unviable or covered. The impact depends on your RAM and SSD or HDD performance. I have plenty of RAM and fast SSD, didn’t observe a noticeable slow down. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevorc Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 3 hours ago, NotMyFault said: Hi Trevorc, in general it is a best practice to close unneeded tabs in any application, e.g. browser or Photo. Browsers recently introduced methods to „pause“ inactive tabs to avoid draining cpu (and battery). Never the less, open tabs consume memory (RAM) and lack of memory can severely degrade performance by forcing the OS to start using pagefile / swap on disk. I don’t know if Photo is able to „pause“ inactive tabs, but windows may require to spent cpu cycles for tabs which are unviable or covered. The impact depends on your RAM and SSD or HDD performance. I have plenty of RAM and fast SSD, didn’t observe a noticeable slow down. Thanks, it makes sense. I suppose I have just got used to not worrying too much about current tabs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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