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Daz studio slowed down by Smart Content pane ?

RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
in Daz Studio Discussion

whats your experience with a constantly refreshing smart content and having the pane open

does it slow down the program?

 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,419

    I haven't ntoicved it efreshing when I don't do anything to it, but it does take a while to populate - especially the first time in a session - so I try not to leave it on top of its pane group when closing DS. If it is a constant drag for you that's certainly worth a bug report.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    it refreshes everytime i have a different target in the scene

    thats the job of smart content

    with all those thumbnails and searching for content

    no slow down ?

    with all the data daz is loading 

    i have the feeling of bad ram management

    i have 8gigs of ram

    is this not enough for 4.9 ?

  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917

    Mine is very slow, it's quicker to find the item yourself!!!

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,176

    Its not a RAM issue - its disk speed. The smart content is driven by the postgres database. This is an ideal candidate for putting on an SSD if you have one - my database takes about 2.2 GB with just over 6,000 items installed.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    namffuak said:

    Its not a RAM issue - its disk speed. The smart content is driven by the postgres database. This is an ideal candidate for putting on an SSD if you have one - my database takes about 2.2 GB with just over 6,000 items installed.

    ...and if i do not have it slows down the program?

  • joeyteeljoeyteel Posts: 65
    namffuak said:

    Its not a RAM issue - its disk speed. The smart content is driven by the postgres database. This is an ideal candidate for putting on an SSD if you have one - my database takes about 2.2 GB with just over 6,000 items installed.

    Actually, it could be a RAM issue, just not in the sense you're thinking :) The Daz defaults for PostgreSQL use the bare minimum of resources to be reasonably fast and functional. If you know how, you can tune PostgreSQL's settings to get it to cache more info in RAM which will also speed it up.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Ruphuss said:
    i have 8gigs of ram

    is this not enough for 4.9 ?

    That's useable, but a large and complicated scene will slow everything down. I only have 8GB on this machine that I've been using for three years or so, and I'll definitely go for at least 16GB in my next one. The general principles of RAM are "as much as you can afford" and "as much as will physically fit on the motherboard".

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    SpottedKitty said:

    The general principles of RAM are "as much as you can afford" and "as much as will physically fit on the motherboard".

    And there are days where 'physically fit the board' is the limiting factor.  Unlike years ago when memory was more expensive than a CPU...I definitely paid more to max out the memory in my IBM PS/2 than I did for the processor for it.

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