Hello everybody,
my question is about the so-called Clip RAM mode, which lets you make Live load Clips into RAM and read them from there, instead of directly from the hard disk. I use a PC laptop (ACER 800 Series, Pentium M Processor, 512 BM RAM) with a pretty slow internal hd, so I used to play with an external firewire harddrive (macpower ice-cube 400, with a maxtor 120 gig, 7200 rpm disk inside), but this one seems to have heat problems at the moment.
So I decided to go safe for our gig tomorrow and play as many samples from RAM as possible.
But - how much is possible? How will I notice I did too much? Can you actually calculate a certain percentage from your overall RAM, that you can 'fill' with clips, say, 80%?
Thanks for your advice!
Katha
Clip RAM Mode - How much is too much?
Clip RAM Mode - How much is too much?
Ableton Live 4, Acer Travelmate 800 Notebook, Centrino 1,4 GHz Prozessor, 512 MB Ram, Doepfer Pocket Dial Midi Controller, stripped down WinXP, Terratec Producer Phase 26 USB, fast (7200 rpm) internal hard drive (Hitachi).
open Task Manager.
you want to look at the Performance Tab
under Physical Memory (K)
keep loading clips into ram until you get to 10,000 left under the "Available" field.
thats just under 10MB.
once you get unde 10MB left, you risk going into Virtual Memory which is swapping from your (slow) hard drive. And reading clips from Virtual Memory (HD) would actually be slower than direct from the HD without RAM mode engaged.
you want to look at the Performance Tab
under Physical Memory (K)
keep loading clips into ram until you get to 10,000 left under the "Available" field.
thats just under 10MB.
once you get unde 10MB left, you risk going into Virtual Memory which is swapping from your (slow) hard drive. And reading clips from Virtual Memory (HD) would actually be slower than direct from the HD without RAM mode engaged.