Christian, on the subject of Kingston memory, are there any known performance issues with their Mac Pro modules. I can order 8GB for under £170 from a webshop which is quite a bit cheaper than the likes of Crucial.
Colin
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Oliver, I have a few thoughts about running 16GB.
DG
note: i did not say we purchase it from apple ... we generally prefer to purchase apple stuff from our favourite apple dealer since everything is thoroughly tested and under warranty ... well, maybe we add audio cards and harddisks from time to time, but if then always high quality
using a pagefile on computers for sample playing is useless (we don't want sample preload buffers to be paged out in virtual memory) so i'm tending to drastically reduce the size of the pagefile or even disable usage of a pagefile ... (advanced system properties, windows only).
GUI resources run short after opening the 60th ViennaInstruments player in ViennaEnsemble ... well, if you are beyond 60 tracks please use 2 machines for the moment.
there are several threads regarding amount of loaded data - basically keep 1 GB RAM free for the operating system and some 100 MB for other stuff (i'm referring to physical memory!) - loading time is increasing proportionally to amount of content to be loaded ... eg. for 24 GB on a 32GB computer it can take 20 minutes or more depending on harddisk-, FSB-, memory-speed, chipset and number of different collections.
in case you often have to switch projects with similar presets and stay below 30 tracks one could use the *dummy host trick* to keep samples loaded ... but this goes beyond the current topic already ...
christian
@cm said:
there are several threads regarding amount of loaded data - basically keep 1 GB RAM free for the operating system and some 100 MB for other stuff (i'm referring to physical memory!) - loading time is increasing proportionally to amount of content to be loaded ... eg. for 24 GB on a 32GB computer it can take 20 minutes or more depending on harddisk-, FSB-, memory-speed, chipset and number of different collections.
christian
I find that without a Page file, loading time increases proportionally. With a Page file it slows down drastically between 7 and 8GB, and then speeds up around 10GB. I also find that if I use too many cells (I know, what's "too many"?) in a matrix, or even the last four matrices in an Instrument, loading slows down again.
DG