Hard Disk Overload??

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SimenE
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Hard Disk Overload??

Post by SimenE » Tue May 14, 2013 10:11 am

I've got a lightning fast SSD disc on my MacBook Pro, OS X 10.8.3, and still I often get a flashing D in the top right corner... If I restart it usually gets better, but suddenly it happens again.
The session is not really big, so it's strange. I've been running 100+ tracks in Cubase without any problems at all so what's up with Ableton?

Valiumdupeuple
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Re: Hard Disk Overload??

Post by Valiumdupeuple » Tue May 14, 2013 12:36 pm

Yep, there's definitely something wrong happening, and it's not just since L9.
We asked Ableton to take this into account during beta (pre-release) phase, but...
It would be seriously interesting to have info on this.

Binman_UK
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Re: Hard Disk Overload??

Post by Binman_UK » Tue May 14, 2013 5:40 pm

i had this for the first time with live 8 the other day. it's worth checking your memory usage.
i found that memory was increasing steadily until all 2gb ran out and the o/s started using paging space (and therefore hammering disk i/o)
it was causing audio playback and recording dropouts. if i stopped ableton and restarted, it was fine for 5 mins... until memory ran out again and then the same happened. looks like some kind of memory leak.

Robodelfy
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Re: Hard Disk Overload??

Post by Robodelfy » Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:52 pm

Yeah Im having the same problem

Can run loads of stems in cubase, but ableton 9 is haveing disk overloads all the time with 30 tracks of audio

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