Tuesday, January 17, 2012

A window into Bridge's limits - or the corrupt cache issue, again

Well, it happened again: the dreaded “Bridge has a problem reading the cache. Purge the central cache.”


This has now happened twice on the G5 tower (my primary benchmark machine). Both times the cache had reached nearly identical size: 44gb, 364k+ items. the first time and 43gb, 352k+ items the second time.

Although a pattern seems to be emerging, it should be noted that the third time this happened was on my Macbook Pro and the size was somewhat smaller: 40gb, 298k+ items.

While we can't determine what this means with any degree of certainty, it just might indicate what the top end limits are in using Bridge.

Still. . . it pays to watch your cache levels carefully and optimize as needed (command/control + K in Bridge preferences)

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