EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 12:37 PM 02/08/2006, james page wrote:


>--- Jeremy Martin <jeremy@...> wrote:
>
> > You might take a look at your disk I/O when playing
> > the two libraries
> > - I would guess the higher CPU load is caused by not
> > being able to fit
> > all the samples into RAM, and the computer
> > struggling to swap lots of
> > data in and out constantly. You can compare by
> > watching Activity
> > Monitor / Disk Activity.
>
>The manual say to turn off Virtual memory if you don't
>need it. How does one determine that? Also what is the
>disadvantage to leaving it turned on?  Doesn't it only
>come into play when you run out of RAM capacity?

Yes. And this will be very early if you're using any of the 
now-common mondo sample sets---no matter how much RAM you have 
installed. Sample streaming from hard disk is now the norm, and works 
well as long as you have reasonably fast hard drives.