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performance : Auto White Balance slow ?
Posted: November 26th, 2024, 10:10 pm
by pierrelabreche
Using the Levels and Color transformation, PWP stopped responding for a while, with the Remove Color pop-up being displayed "not responding" in the status bar. After about 15 seconds, the app was fluid again.
Workflow script attached.

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Re: performance : Auto White Balance slow ?
Posted: November 26th, 2024, 11:23 pm
by jsachs
I have seen similar things happen here more or less at random -- I believe this may be a problem with the Windows task scheduler or memory manager but I don't have any real evidence one way or the other. There were similar problems early on with the Windows scheduler causing long delays when running on computers that had a lot of cores. There is nothing that I know of in the program code that could account for these random delays.
Re: performance : Auto White Balance slow ?
Posted: November 27th, 2024, 2:31 pm
by pierrelabreche
I would keep an eye on "Levels and Color - color balance", since I have seen it happen many times on this specific transformation, as witnessed with the color picker popup showing "not responding".
Re: performance : Auto White Balance slow ? - crashed
Posted: December 1st, 2024, 1:11 am
by pierrelabreche
Levels and color balance ceased responding then crashed PWP. See attached debug info.
Re: performance : Auto White Balance slow ?
Posted: December 1st, 2024, 10:35 am
by jsachs
I have tried a number of times and cannot reproduce this issue, nor has anyone else reported it.
Re: performance : Auto White Balance slow ?
Posted: December 1st, 2024, 1:14 pm
by pierrelabreche
Have you tried using the color picker pipette for the "remove color" patch ?
Re: performance : Auto White Balance slow ?
Posted: December 1st, 2024, 1:15 pm
by jsachs
Yes