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  • Could Someone Explain These Memory Figures?

    T
    T
    I finally brought Activity Monitor to see what was happening and I'm a little confused. On a Mac Pro with 6g, and 5 Vienna Instruments instantiations in Logic 8, all string legato instruments, it says: USED: 5.80 GB Inactive: 4.44 GB Active: 420.65 MB FREE: 206.98 MB VM SIZE: 11.07 GB The list shows Logic Pro using 5.50 of the CPU (standing still) and 477.14 MB. It shows VSL-Server using 462.13 If this is true that there is only 206.98 MB free (for more VSL instances) then how are some of you getting all those instances of Vienna up at one time? Do you have like 600 Gigs of memory or something? ;) Confused...thanks for any enlightenment. Tom
  • PaulP
    VSL Team
    PaulP

    HI Tom,

    the memory management in OS X 10.4 is quite tricky (I assume you are not using Leopard yet). You can read a lot about this OS behaviour in the Apple forums... Wavs do

    It has been much improved in Leopard, but then again not all hardware providers have working versions or drivers for this platform yet.

    The VI interface shows the same figures that you see in the Activity Monitor, how much RAM do you actually use within the VI?

    Best,

    Paul 

    Paul Kopf Head of Product Marketing, Social Media and Support
  • M
    M

    Hello,

    Try rebooting and running logic and VI's from start up. Look at the activity monitor and see if you still have 4.44gb Inactive.

    From what i gather the inactive memory is actually free memory and will be used when requested. (OSX basically stores info so you can launch programs and stuff really quickly when requested. So if you've had logic and other programss already running it stores this data in the inactive memory incase you want to open/use it again.)...

    Seems to me you effectively have 4.44gb + 206mb free memory... just doesn't look like it.