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    I am still waiting for some more hung notes. I have 20gig of ram on my slave mac how much ram should I leave free. I am thinking maybe I am trying to access too much of my 20 gigs of ram. thanks for the help, David
  • Cyril BlancC
    Cyril BlancC

    Looks like that Mac os X is getting slow when the swap is used, or it could be memory leaks 

    Let's wait you get pops, clicks to see if that is confirm

    I have moved the VM files onto a separate drive/partition that is only used by VM

    best

    Cyril

    MacBook Pro M3 MAX 128 GB 8TB - 2 x 48" - 1 x 27" screen --- Logic Pro --- Mir Pro 3D Dolby Atmos --- Most of the VI libs, a few Synch... libs --- Quite a few Kontakt libs --- CS80 fanatic
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    I don't understand the line below, what is VM

    I have moved the VM files onto a separate drive/partition that is only used by VM

    also if I have 20gigs how much ram do I have to leave free??

    thanks for the help

    Dave
  • Cyril BlancC
    Cyril BlancC

    VM = Virtual Memory

    >  if I have 20gigs how much ram do I have to leave free??

    Normally you should be able to use them all, it depends if there is memory leaks

    MacBook Pro M3 MAX 128 GB 8TB - 2 x 48" - 1 x 27" screen --- Logic Pro --- Mir Pro 3D Dolby Atmos --- Most of the VI libs, a few Synch... libs --- Quite a few Kontakt libs --- CS80 fanatic
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    I found that OSX holds onto a lot of memory, the blue area in activity monitor, that restarting gets rid of. I have enough RAM to where I haven't run into any phenomena caused by it, but currently it's showing that ~18GB are being used, running a project that uses more like a third of that actually.

    My guess is that this is memory-related.
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    @ddk said:

    my main mac is a 2.32 quad os 10.5 8 24 gig ram

    my slave is mac 2x2.66 os 10.5.8 20gig ram 

    If your master is a more robust machine than your slave, I would suggest rethinking that one. The slave would usually perform the heavy lifting, and by a goodly margin.
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    D

    thanks for the replies

    I am going to try to add more ram 

    dave
  • Cyril BlancC
    Cyril BlancC
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    @ddk said:

    thanks for the replies

    I am going to try to add more ram 

    dave

    Before going on expences you better give us the figure I have ask you to see what is wrong

    you can also give the figure just after loading your template

    If there is a memory leak in VSL adding more memory will not help

    Best

    Cyril

    MacBook Pro M3 MAX 128 GB 8TB - 2 x 48" - 1 x 27" screen --- Logic Pro --- Mir Pro 3D Dolby Atmos --- Most of the VI libs, a few Synch... libs --- Quite a few Kontakt libs --- CS80 fanatic
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    I have tons of clicks and pops if I forget to switch off SETI@Home on the slave Macs.

    Maybe thats it? Screensaver kicking in?

    Jochen

    www.jochenschmidt.de
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    D

    what is SETI@Home???

    thanks for the help

    Dave
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    A software to find space aliens.

    Seriously! Google it!

    Jochen