Re: Audio speed
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:23 pm
How did the Activity Monitor display come out? Memory is a good snapshot of what's going on in the machine during performance.
Macs have a memory checker. I need to look that one up.
Do you run any other apps while you're performing? I probably wouldn't.
Did you bottom feed the machine? Is it the smallest, most underpowered, "affordable" machine you could get? Macs do OK shuffling apps in tiny memory, but sooner or later they all have to start swapping to hard drive and then performance goes into the gutter. Do you have a spinning metal hard drive? My last four machines all had Solid State Drives and maxed out memory and I've never had performance problems with any of them.
Past that I got nothing. The programmers have a thing called "Moonphase Error." Sometimes when the second monthly moon is in the fifth waxing quarter on Thursday, the program will crash. Those make everyone nuts.
Troubleshooting does give us some hints:
Making it better or worse is equally valuable. Can you force it to be worse?
Change things in sequence and pay strict attention to what happens, even things that seemingly have nothing to do with your job.
Run diagnostics (see Activity Monitor).
Change half the system. This one can start to get expensive. The problem will in all probability follow only one of the two halves. Borrow or rent a second computer.
Koz
Macs have a memory checker. I need to look that one up.
Do you run any other apps while you're performing? I probably wouldn't.
Did you bottom feed the machine? Is it the smallest, most underpowered, "affordable" machine you could get? Macs do OK shuffling apps in tiny memory, but sooner or later they all have to start swapping to hard drive and then performance goes into the gutter. Do you have a spinning metal hard drive? My last four machines all had Solid State Drives and maxed out memory and I've never had performance problems with any of them.
Past that I got nothing. The programmers have a thing called "Moonphase Error." Sometimes when the second monthly moon is in the fifth waxing quarter on Thursday, the program will crash. Those make everyone nuts.
Troubleshooting does give us some hints:
Making it better or worse is equally valuable. Can you force it to be worse?
Change things in sequence and pay strict attention to what happens, even things that seemingly have nothing to do with your job.
Run diagnostics (see Activity Monitor).
Change half the system. This one can start to get expensive. The problem will in all probability follow only one of the two halves. Borrow or rent a second computer.
Koz