RAM draining away

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Calazon

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Hi. Recently while using an audio producing program, I got a new plug-in which requires a lot of RAM to work. As it's a 32-bit application, the max I can use is 3.6 or 4gb. I've been getting warnings for having no ram left.

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 5.86 GT/s

Since this started happening I decided to monirtor my RAM usage and discovered some things. When I first start up my computer, 1gb of RAM will be in use, no matter how long I leave it on it will stay at that number. If I open up my audio software and use the plug-ins it will put that number up to about 3.9gb. Now if I close that plug-in and re-open it, it will be using more RAM than previously. If I continue to open and close, the used memory slowly but surely goes up and up until there is none left. The only thing that will being it back down is restarting, even though the total amount of plug-ins is the same.

Also. If I open up iTunes, and play some music, stop the music and leave it open for an hour or so, 1.5 or so GB just magically dissapears. If I close iTunes, close my audio program, close every single thing that is open and any processes that I do not need open, the used RAM sits at 3GB or so.

How can I recover RAM that has been taken up?

Thanks,
Aaron
 
Calazon said:
Since this started happening I decided to monirtor my RAM usage and discovered some things. When I first start up my computer, 1gb of RAM will be in use, no matter how long I leave it on it will stay at that number. If I open up my audio software and use the plug-ins it will put that number up to about 3.9gb. Now if I close that plug-in and re-open it, it will be using more RAM than previously. If I continue to open and close, the used memory slowly but surely goes up and up until there is none left. The only thing that will being it back down is restarting, even though the total amount of plug-ins is the same.

Also. If I open up iTunes, and play some music, stop the music and leave it open for an hour or so, 1.5 or so GB just magically dissapears. If I close iTunes, close my audio program, close every single thing that is open and any processes that I do not need open, the used RAM sits at 3GB or so.
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Everything you discovered in the first paragraph is normal. The contents of RAM do not truly get flushed until a restart. The rest can be attributed to memory leaks which is pretty common in software. I don't know a lot about audio programs but I do know they can be pretty RAM hungry. It may help if you mentioned the audio program in question.
 
Yes its true that audio programs are RAM hungry. You can try the tools suggested by jbarley.
I would suggest to remove the other unnecessary plug-ins of your audion application. You can do this with Stellar speed up Mac software.
 
ronaldross said:
Yes its true that audio programs are RAM hungry. You can try the tools suggested by jbarley.
I would suggest to remove the other unnecessary plug-ins of your audion application. You can do this with Stellar speed up Mac software.
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You are aware I hope, that you just responded to a post that is over a year old?
 
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