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Re: [EXS] Re: Sampled Piano CPU Load Question

2006-02-08 by james page

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

> >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?


--- Sean McCoy <osr@...> wrote:
> 
> 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.

So in other words, For most users, Virtual Memory
should always be on?
I thought i remembered Michiel Post recommending it be
turned off for his pianos if the user had 3 or more
gigs RAM. Maybe he was assuming that the piano would
be the only RAM hog in use.
JP

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