Settings for Audio Workstation

[Stevie]

hi all,

i compiled my vista x64 business dvd for audio yesterday.

pretty much everything got stripped off (internet,

and other stuff that isnt related to audio). after having installed

vista i still had a memory usage of 600-700 MB, what surprised

me. from forum readings here i expected something between 300 and 400.

any idead what i did wrong? i mean i removed a lot and really was

convinced that the ram usage would go down.

greets stevie

[nuhi]

Do you consider Cached memory as taken or free?

Vista is built that way that it will take all your memory eventually. That makes sense if you think about it.

So if you want to compare then consider Cached as Free.

Total - (Cached + Free) = Taken

But after I install firewall, antivirus and 5-6 more tools which run constantly I get the usage around yours as well. That would go another 200-400 on the full.

[Stevie]

hi nuhi!

thanks for your reply.

well, i gotta admit that i try to circumvent caching, since i dont really

have need for it. on my audio workstation i only use audio apps which

dont need cache anyway. i just need plain ram

so i would say that cached memory is taken memory.

i thought i could deactivate all that cache stuff by turning off the

superfetching and readyboost services.

greets

stevie

[ajua]

read about superfetch and memory caching. if you only run audio apps on that machine, you will benefit from superfectch so i dont recommend you to disable it.

[nuhi]

Stevie, that Cache is good as free, whatever you run that session it keeps, don't even think about it, it can flush it when needed for something newly ran and it helps when getting old, point is it holds what you run and up to that point, not some statistically collected data like Superfetch.

Removing Superfetch and Readyboost you get rid of aggressive caching.

[Stevie]

hi!

well i tried all that with my stripped down vista.

i loaded samples with the size of almost 3 GB but i already got errors

when i reached the 2 GB limit. this showed me, that the cache doesnt

free used ram. but maybe i broke something when vliting vista.

greets stevie

[nuhi]

Nothing could be broken and you're not right about the cache, don't know how to convince you, do you want some links with info?

See about raising your pagefile size and search online what is your real issue. I know that ISO for example can't handle files bigger than 2GB, you need UDF format. Just an example that 2GB is magical. Fat32 breaks as well, you need NTFS for them, but I presume you must be using NTFS, on all partitions?

[benifin]

Just to clarify please as I also use Vlite for my Studio AUdio workstation.

In the past, I have always stripped-out Superfetch and Readyboost .

For an Audio recording workstation, is it actually better / best to leave these 2 in ?

Also, as I have 2gig of memory, I no longer use a PageFile - set it manually to zero.

I thought Pagefiles were irrelevant now in the era of Vista 32/64 and fast hard disks and lots of memory ?!?

Any thoughts / suggestions please ?

Ben

[nuhi]

That's dangerous. If your memory usage goes above 2GB, which isn't so difficult, it will display low virtual memory and start expanding/creating pagefile or just crash.

But I guess it's easy to top that only with Virtual Machines and Games which you maybe don't use.

[Legolash2o]

That's dangerous. If your memory usage goes above 2GB, which isn't so difficult, it will display low virtual memory and start expanding/creating pagefile or just crash.

But I guess it's easy to top that only with Virtual Machines and Games which you maybe don't use.

From personal experience it depends on how much RAM the program needs if its a small program then it will create/expand a pagefile but if its like a game then it will popup too but then go really slow and well just reboot.

[Stevie]

hi benifin!

are you satisfied with your settings and did you strip out

any net stuff?

greets stevie