Kind Of Stumped Options

[mortalengines]

I have a powerbook G4 with 1.5ghz processor, 1.25 gig of Ram & OSX 10.3.9 with Ableton Live 5.2.2 & I was playing live the other day & not using my Firwire Interface as an output (instead opting for the "built in audio" option with a 1/8" adapter to RCA outs into a mixer) & on one song I started getting serious CPU overload at 62% & by that I mean audio cutout/stutter/slowdown....very ugly. This hadn't happened earlier in my home studio with the FW interface hooked up & it didn't happen when I got back home either (with the FW hooked up once again). Does using the built in audio really tax the CPU that much? Anyone else ever experience this? What was the solution?

[mortalengines]

So that means that the transition from 10.3 to 10.4 doesn't necessarily wipe out the old hard drive info...it merely updates the OS?

[lancet]

So that means that the transition from 10.3 to 10.4 doesn't necessarily wipe out the old hard drive info...it merely updates the OS?

yes. updating just updates. It won't erase anything.

[mortalengines]

Here's an interesting footnote to all of this. What I didn't understand is why I was able to do some of the operations relatively trouble free in the past that were suddenly a problem. Then I just had an accident that wiped out a bunch of stuff on my desktop ( some photo file folders and a collection of mp3's, & some pdf's that I liked to keep handy for quick reference). I was mad about this at first but what do you know, all of a sudden, my trouble spots in Ableton all but disappeared. I really had no idea that a cluttered desktop had that much effect on CPU efficiency.....Or does it?

[lancet]

I was mad about this at first but what do you know, all of a sudden, my trouble spots in Ableton all but disappeared. I really had no idea that a cluttered desktop had that much effect on CPU efficiency.....Or does it?

I would tend to think that it was just a coincidence. Files sitting idly on you hard disk shouldn't have any impact on CPU usage. Maybe some other change that's been overlooked?

The only possibility imho, is if your HD was very full AND you didn't have enough RAM, you may have performance issues. This would be because you didn't have enough free space for your virtual memory requirements which are high in the first place without enough RAM.

Even then I would expect only slight improvements if you freed up HD space.


anyway, I'm glad to hear you've been healed..

Could it be that developers are tracking and monitor all of our activities including the current versions we are working with, therefore, can monopalize, forcing so-called upgrades down our literal throats. Is it that devlopers can create glitches or problems down the virtural cable into our home systems, disrrupt (or antiquate) our the current version(s) we own and operate, so you will b estanding in line for the "new" and "improved" upgraded version of music software. Do you think that Apple really is so nice that every time your computer crashes they want you to feel out the little reporting box and send it to them, They simply want to find out what type of software you were using using, so they can build a better up-grade for your (that will probably cost). .

Actually it's probably far less sinister than that. Businesses need something to sell or the go out of business.

So yes, there will always be something new to buy.

Wearing a tin foil hat is not the solution.

This post has been edited by lancet: Thu 4 Jan 2007, 13:15