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  • What's Good Amount of RAM to Leave "Memory Free"

    M
    M

    What's a safe amount of memory to leave available in the VI player 'memory free' box -- under the perform tab? I assume that VI keeps using up more memory the more articulations you play.

    This is on a slave machine, so VE is the only app running. I'm just squeezing in 2.3 megs of woodwinds out of her. That leaves 190 megs showing in the 'memory free'. But that quickly drops to about 89 megs free once I've hit half, or so, of the articulations. What would you guys consider safe a safe margin? Or do I just need to experiment?

    Computer is Windows XP SP2

    3 gig switch

    4 Gigs memory installed

    2.49 available at start

    Thanks if you have any tips on this.

    Mahlon

  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC

    190 MB free looks like a good value .... please consider that switching between different screens in the VI interface will also need some ressources and as well there might be other applications on your computer asking for some additional memory during work ...

    related to some tests i can only share my findings - the system kept stable down to ~130 MB free memory.

    this value might strongly depend on the actual state of memory fragmentation, which will be hard to recognize (without a seperate tool which would need memory for its own ...)

    christian

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • R
    R

    I have been stable down to 50 mb of ram free.  Might be flirting with danger but greedy for all ram I can get on my 3 gb switch machines.

    Rob 
  • M
    M

    Thanks for the answers and help. I was stable as well at 83 megs for most of last evening. Will try again, but I think I may leave a bit more for safety's sake. Upgrading to XP64 this week plus more RAM, so hopefully I won't have to worry so much about it soon. It's just that I love multitudes of thsoe beautiful woodwind articulations at my greedy fingertips!![;)]

    Thanks again,
    Mahlon