live not purging memory

alltomorrowsparties · Post by **alltomorrowsparties** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:50 pm

Hi all....
I'm using ableton 6 on mac osx 10.4.11...
today, as i had system monitor open, i noticed the most peculiar thing; I had a live set open that was taking up roughly 200mb of real memory, i then closed it and started a new one.

Usually when my "new" template is opened, it takes up about 78mb of memory, but when i went from the 200mb set to the 78mb set, system monitor was still showing ableton using 200mb of ram??

I then closed ableton completely, re-opened with my default 78mb set; system monitor was back down to the proper 78mb;s of used ram.

I'm a little worried now because I'm starting gigging in January and I'm not going to have time to quit ableton..reload....open the next set...etc

...does it happen to you?

...is this behaviour normal?

thanks in advance

Jamie

dysanfel · Post by **dysanfel** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:16 pm

Are you noticing any performance issues? If your not then don't worry about it. It could be that Live wants that RAM reserved once its used.

And for the record, I have noticed the same thing in Leopard.

alltomorrowsparties · Post by **alltomorrowsparties** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:35 pm

thankyou dysanfel..... that has put my mind at ease some-what..what can i say, I'm a worrier!

Jamie

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:33 pm

Mac OS X memory management is somewhat 'cache aggressive', just in case you need that code or data again. Look at the explanation in the Active Monitor section.
Live is also cache aggressive so the two together.... but until you don't experience Jitter... you're ok man!

- Best
- Pasha

alltomorrowsparties · Post by **alltomorrowsparties** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:22 am

Thankyou pasha

jamie

spookyrockstar · Post by **spookyrockstar** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:16 pm

It actually does this in Windows too.

You have to close out the program in order to REALLY free up anything that isn't loaded by third party VSTi.