Audacity Forum

You are measuring just your processes not all of them. Note in my illustration, I had it set to All Processes.

Does this tell you anything useful with Audacity?

That's the super-duper high speed internal memory and that looks normal. If you start getting 4GB left on your system drive, that could be very serious.

Desktop > Go > Computer. Control-Click on the system drive (attached 1) > Get INFO.
You're looking for Capacity and Available numbers (attached 2).

This is my "office machine." I wouldn't dream of doing heavy audio (or video) production with available numbers that low.

Now that you closed Chrome, Are your problems still there?

Koz

Have you tried this possible solution: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... mac_buffer

It's possible, but I thought the buffer thing was for recording where the machine had bad or ratty control over drive/memory during real time demands.

"The cello solo is continuing to pour in, but the hard drive is off polishing the silverware. We need to put the sound somewhere."

Koz

kozikowski wrote:It's possible, but I thought the buffer thing was for recording where the machine had bad or ratty control over drive/memory during real time demands.

The buffer problem is primarily but not exclusively a playback problem. That is why it is in the Playback section of the FAQ's.


Gale