Re-Starting Mac to get better performance (no hung notes)

[ddk]

Hi

I find that if I leave my mac slave on for more than 2 or 3 hours it

has too be restarted to get rid of clicks pops hung notes.

When I re-start and reload my template on my slave everything works again but

it is a pain. Does any one else have this problem? any ideas what may fix this

thanks

Dave

[Paul]

Hello Dave,

Do you have a little more information for us?

Which OS, which CPU, which Mac model, how much RAM, how much RAM used, which sequencer and version, which VSL software and version....

Thanks,

Paul

[ddk]

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 

I am useing cubase 5.5.2 build 637

Ve-pro version 4.1.7664

thanks for the help

dave

[Cyril Blanc]

When you get the hung notes on your slave mac, can you look in activity monitor in system memory and post the figures 

Best

Cyril

[ddk]

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 Blanc]

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

[ddk]

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 Blanc]

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

[civilization 3]

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.

[civilization 3]

@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.

[ddk]

thanks for the replies

I am going to try to add more ram 

dave

[Cyril Blanc]

@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

[Josch]

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

[ddk]

what is SETI@Home???

thanks for the help

Dave

[Josch]

A software to find space aliens.

Seriously! Google it!

Jochen